Quotes About Media

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

People have said I'm too fat to be a pop star.

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager.

Poppy doesn't really like interviews.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Political culture has become popular culture.

When I was younger I didn't feel I was represented in popular culture - you couldn't get a brown doll in the shops and you didn't see many brown people on TV.

I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.

Networks are operating from a fear base where it's all about playing the popularity game.

I don't really care if people talk, I just want them to watch my fights. I'm really not in this for press or a popularity contest, I'm just here to fight.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.