Quotes of: Celebrity-culture Keyword

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

Geert Hofstede

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Henry Louis Gates

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

John Podhoretz

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Judah Friedlander

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Mark Pagel

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Arthur Erickson

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kate Bush

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Chuck D

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Gloria Steinem

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Max Cannon

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Stephen King

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Benazir Bhutto

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Zainab Salbi

So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smi...

The Fault in Our Stars

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was w...

Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who