Top 1200 American Pop Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

African American culture is American culture.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.

I really enjoy listening to Japanese pop aka J-Pop and I also like listening to anime songs as well. Both of these types of music are unique to Japanese culture and listening to these types of music gets me going.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

I think K-Pop is something that sucks people in because it's open. I can do pop, EDM, rock, R&B and it doesn't matter, K-Pop embraces them all.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I think pop culture would have survived without me!

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

I'm forever a part of pop culture.

I had some prejudices and preconceptions about American culture and trash culture, but the artisan food there is not all hot dog stands.

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the country are idyllic, suffused with good old American values, social values, religious values, moral values. It's what we tell ourselves to keep this political power structure in place, and it's what we see in pop culture, too.

People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

American music culture is black culture.

Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.

I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob.

It's amazing that K-pop is spreading around the world as a culture in itself.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.