I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
Matthew McConaugheyI think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
Brian EnoThe stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?
RihannaSometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.
Kendrick LamarAll impeachments, I guess, are political.
John KennedyNothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret ThatcherFor 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
George H. W. BushBy 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
Robert KiyosakiSome people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
Haruki MurakamiFashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco ChanelYou want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
Joe BidenI think politicians really go with the tide.
Jimmy CarterThe most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.
Mr. TIn words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander PopeI have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
Kurt CobainI don’t follow politics much.
Vivienne WestwoodIt seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
Billy GrahamThe atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George OrwellWe’re news junkies in my house.
Stephen KingThe great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BonoMichael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye WestI’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.
Clint EastwoodI don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.
Tom BradySeptember 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.
Noam ChomskyI never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will RogersI pay attention to politics and technology.
Nipsey HussleReal popular culture is folk art – coalminers‘ songs and so forth.
Noam ChomskyI try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
Taylor SwiftThe celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
Anthony BourdainI truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoEverything popular is wrong.
Oscar WildeI see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William ShakespeareI can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.
AuroraEveryone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.
Bad BunnyThe tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Bill GatesThere’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe BidenThe most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.
Terry PratchettThe world is too violent right now.
Jackie ChanFashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco ChanelI could have been a cult writer if I’d kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Haruki MurakamiEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David ThoreauPolitically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerThe U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill GatesPopular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.
Vivienne WestwoodThe last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.
Tom BradyIn a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack ObamaAll over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam ChomskyWhen it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
David BowieIf you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.
Jackie ChanWe live in ugly times.
David ByrneThe mainstream is always under attack.
Bill GatesPop music will never be low brow.
Lady GagaEverything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
Karl LagerfeldIn India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI live in a crazy time.
Anne FrankFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar WildeIt is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar WildeIt’s a very confusing era that we’re in.
Clint EastwoodI seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. Cole