Quotes of: Popular-culture Keyword

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electro...

Douglas Rushkoff

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

minister from Australia or New Zealand...(Jim Cymbala)

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

Sharon M. Draper

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

James Madison

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Howard Cosell

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Steve Nash

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

Theophilus London

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

Todd Rundgren

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Al Gore

Spread the word of a Psalm and it becomes a popular song.

Myanmar

We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are still so very real and need to be talked about, but we’re aware that they’ve ...

Love

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own cul...

Edward T. Hall

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

James Van Allen

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Moby

No saint was ever popular in his own parish.

Breton

A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same.

English

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Renee Fleming

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

Lester Bangs

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Andrew Lansley