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Purely formal integrity is just about the only kind of integrity our popular culture celebrates anymore — Anonymous

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. — Stanley Crouch

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it. — Rebecca Sugar

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ... — Dawoud Bey

Popular culture has made it okay to yell "I want a man!" from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, "I want a best friend"? — Rachel Bertsche

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture. — Brian Cox

Popular culture is filled with girls. — Juliana Hatfield

I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture. — Marc Guggenheim

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. — Branford Marsalis

One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica. — Alfred Appel Jr.

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. — Michael Leunig

Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia. — Euny Hong

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. — Garry Trudeau

Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. — Tipper Gore

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. — Jeffrey Deitch

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular. — Alan Moore

Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility. — Anonymous

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. — David Brinkley

If I must choose, I'd rather be tuned in than 'turnt up'. — T.F. Hodge

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. — Jaron Lanier

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it? — Don DeLillo

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve. — The Kinks

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. — P. J. O'Rourke

The Doors embodied - incarnated - a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. — Vivienne Westwood

On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture. — Ross E. Lockhart

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture? — Bart Chilton

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want. — Victor Davis Hanson

But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you're
sharing a reality that doesn't exist. — Chuck Klosterman

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity. — Raheel Farooq

The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash. — Tony Judt

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. — Robert Crumb

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life. — Joe Bradley

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe. — Nick Offerman

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. — Susan Faludi

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. — Gary Bauer

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable. — Daniel Clowes

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy. — Alec Waugh

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture. — Steve Guttenberg

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song. — Linda Ronstadt

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

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt

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

Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish. — Criss Jami

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke. — Kim Hyesoon

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. — Seth Rogen

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. — Camille Paglia

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. — Gail Carson Levine

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. — Brad Bird

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. — Andrew Hoberek

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture. — Jesse Eisenberg

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture. — G. Willow Wilson

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. — Noam Chomsky

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. — Colin Firth

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner. — Ibn Warraq

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people. — Aasif Mandvi

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it. — John Corigliano

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap. — Brian K. Vaughan

I am one with the popular culture. — Lloyd Blankfein

I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture. — Jill Soloway

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture. — Marc Newson

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it. — Mason Cooley

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. — Daniel H. Wilson

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture. — Geena Davis

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all. — T Bone Burnett

is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture. — Ben Shapiro

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. — James Wolcott

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious. — Mason Cooley