Top 1200 Pop Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

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

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

Stylistically speaking I would put us in the pop/rock vein. Although our songs tend to have a darker or moodier current running through them than usual pop/rock. I would say our music is very honest. We're not trying to be anybody or anything for anyone

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head. Some of the really great slogans we came up with, over the years, the big advertising buzz-words that we had, Don created those. It's just kind of fun just thinking about what we both love about pop culture and applying it to Chucky film and any others.

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I still go to the conventions, and I like to hear the point of view of people today. I'm a little afraid they're being brainwashed by this new pop-culture. I think it's not really elevating our lives like it did in the good old days of Hollywood, where you had a happy ending. They used to criticize happy endings, but really, what's the point of going to a film if you have to come out hating your fellow man?

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.

Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.