Ryan Murphy | PopCultureQuotes.com
If the United States continues its decline, we should absolutely expect continuing anemic long-run growth rates.
By: Ryan Murphy
Context:
Professor and economist Ryan Murphy talking about stagnant wages and economic growth in the U.S. since the 2008 financial crisis , where annual expansion has yet to crack 3 percent.
Mark Zuckerberg | PopCultureQuotes.com
Yesterday, a Minnesota woman named Diamond Reynolds went live on Facebook immediately after her fiancé, Philando Castile, had been shot by police in his car. Philando later died from his wounds. In the video, Diamond's 4-year-old daughter is watching from the back seat.
My heart goes out to the Castile family and all the other families who have experienced this kind of tragedy. My thoughts are also with all members of the Facebook community who are deeply troubled by these events.
The images we've seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking, and they shine a light on the fear that millions of members of our community live with every day. While I hope we never have to see another video like Diamond's, it reminds us why coming together to build a more open and connected world is so important -- and how far we still have to go.
By: Mark Zuckerberg
Context:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg comments on a Facebook Live Stream of the aftermath of a police-involved shooting in Minnesota. The shooting took the life of Philando Castile, who was shot in front of his fiancé, Diamond Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter.
Chris Hardwick | PopCultureQuotes.com
There are nerds, and then there are "Nerdists." A "Nerdist" is, more specifically, an artful nerd. He or she doesn't just consume, he or she creates and innovates.
By: Chris Hardwick
Context:
Chris Hardwick is an actor, host and comedian who founded Nerdist Industries, a digital media empire that has spawned numerous offshoots, including an improv school and live performance theater in Los Angeles, dozens of pop culture-related podcasts, an entertainment news website, among other entities.
Geneva Reed-Veal | PopCultureQuotes.com
I don’t come to sit and be a part of a caucus where we talk and do nothing. . . I leave you with this: it is time to wake up, get up, step up, or shut up.
By: Geneva Reed-Veal
Context:
Statement made during a speech by the mother of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old African-American woman who died in a Texas jail cell last summer. The suspicious death as later ruled a suicide by investigators. Reed-Veal was speaking at the Library of Congress, part of the first symposium of the newly formed Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls.
Darrell Issa | PopCultureQuotes.com
To your know knowledge Ms. Landau, has the U.S. Government ever ordered a shredding company to reassemble paper that a [professional] shredding company has shredded?
By: Darrell Issa
Context:
Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, asked the question to Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Susan Landau, during her testimony in front of Congress regarding encryption. She and Apple lead attorney Bruce Sewell testified about an FBI request made to the company to access the phone of a terror suspect.
Orlando Jones | PopCultureQuotes.com
I'm TOTALLY on board with Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson IF AND ONLY IF Angela Bassett is cast as Elizabeth Taylor.
By: Orlando Jones
Context:
Actor Orlando Jones reacting on Twitter to Joseph Fiennes being cast as Michael Jackson for a U.K. made-for-TV drama to appear on the British channel Sky Arts. The TV movie centers around a fabled road trip where Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando attempted to get home to Los Angeles from New York City after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Don Cheadle | PopCultureQuotes.com
I applaud their attempts to do something about it, which is great. But again, this is dealing with the symptom and not starting at the root cause - how we even get to results like this - which has to do with inclusion and access, including the ability for people of color, women, minorities having opportunities to get entry level positions where you can become someone who can green light a movie.
By: Don Cheadle
Context:
Don Cheadle commenting on the 2016 Academy Awards diversity controversy where every major acting award nomination went to caucasians, excluding people of color as well as all other minorities. In the video, Danny DeVito also comments on the issue, saying "We're a bunch of racists."
Ice Cube, | PopCultureQuotes.com
The great thing about being in this country is to be able to speak your mind.
By: Ice Cube
Context:
Ice Cube, aka O'Shea Jackson, during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter July 31, 2015 issue, while discussing his film Straight Outta Compton, which tells the story of seminal rap group N.W.A.
Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek: The Original Series | PopCultureQuotes.com
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
By: Leonard Nimoy
Context:
Leonard Nimoy's final Tweet, time-stamped at 11:36 p.m. Pacific Time. The iconic Star Trek actor passed away Friday, February 27th, 2015.
Lana Wachowski from Jupiter Ascending | PopCultureQuotes.com
When I was young, originality was everything. A sequel was like a bad word. We’ve gone to the opposite place where [audiences] actually are more excited about a story we know the ending to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTs0nvrMUA
By: Lana Wachowski
Context:
The filmmaker - in a rare interview with the Los Angeles Times - talking about how the just-released film she made with her brother Andy Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending, might fare at the box office. There's another great quote by Brent Lang, the source article's writer, about the current state of the movie business: "Jupiter Ascending may have crashed and burned, but at least it tried to soar on the strength of its own originality and daring. Its failure makes it harder for other filmmakers to get a chance to take similar risks. In this climate, would The Matrix ever have gotten made?"
Russell Simmons | PopCultureQuotes.com
Hollywood should lead the way in healing. . . Hollywood should not be afraid of the subject matter Norman Lear dealt with 35 years ago.
By: Russell Simmons
Context:
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons - speaking at the 2015 NATPE Conference - had harsh words about the lack of diversity he has encountered in Hollywood, since turning his focus to producing movies, TV shows and digital content. The event comes during a difficult time for race relations, after a series of police-involved shootings of black men.
AJ Cooper III | PopCultureQuotes.com
All I can say is that all of the emotions you are feeling need to be channeled into political power. Let that burning feeling in your gut be the fuel to power a movement. Otherwise when the smoke clears all we will have left are tears and ashes.
By: AJ Cooper III
Context:
Cooper wrote this on his Facebook page in response to anger about Officer Darren Wilson‘s non-indictment in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The former host of BET‘s Teen Summit and burgeoning politician passed away weeks later from a sudden illness.
Chris Rock | PopCultureQuotes.com
When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before…
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress. There's been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship's improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." It's not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn't. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
By: Chris Rock
Context:
Rock gives his impressions of race relations in America during an interview with New York Magazine's Frank Rich. The interview came at the time of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a local police officer.
Martin Armstrong | PopCultureQuotes.com
Is this just turning into thugs with badges who just enforce whatever law some nut-job politician writes? What if they passed a Herod type law to curb population and decree that everyone must kill their first-born.
By: Martin Armstrong
Context:
Armstrong supposes that there will be a serious political uprising in America by 2016, should the economy turn down, partly because of corruption and income inequality.
James Cameron from Terminator | PopCultureQuotes.com
We’re burdened with a consciousness, and that consciousness allows us to think ahead. Our daydreams and nightmares project future simulations, which we then hold ourselves up against to see if we can cut it... Ultimately, dark futures are always more interesting in movies than bright, utopian ones.
By: James Cameron
Genres: Science Fiction
Context:
Cameron comments on the "Allure of the Apocalypse" as a movie theme at the 30th Anniversary screening of his 1984 cult classic sci-fi thriller The Terminator. The screening took place at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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