The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
Jeffrey Goines: There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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.
Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that...
