Culture & Society

Tim Berners-Lee | PopCultureQuotes.com

If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life. . .If a Government can block you going to, for example, the opposition’s political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power.

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By: Tim Berners-Lee

Context:
Berners-Lee at the 2014 Web We Want festival in London, talking about the need for "Web Magna Carta." The Web We Want movement is dedicated to creating an online Bill of Rights, in order to prevent government overreach.

Gene Simmons | PopCultureQuotes.com

Rock is finally dead. . . I am so sad that the next 15-year-old kid in a garage someplace in St. Paul, that plugs into his Marshall and wants to turn it up to 10, will not have anywhere near the same opportunity that I did. He will most likely, no matter what he does, fail miserably.

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By: Gene Simmons

Context:
KISS frontman Gene Simmons during an interview with Esquire Magazine that was conducted by his son, Nick. Simmons felt that because of what he says is a crumbling business model, including "file-sharing and downloading" by fans who believe they "were entitled to have something for free. . .rock is finally dead."

source: www.cnn.com,  

Harry Knowles | PopCultureQuotes.com

I was their experiment. . .They unleashed everything on me. I saw porn, all the Universal monster movies, all the Charlie Chan films, all the Sherlock Holmes things, all the Fred and Ginger movies. Film for me became how I related to everything else.

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By: Harry Knowles

Context:
Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles talking about how his parents raised him in Austin, Texas. They were described as hippie aesthetes who opened Austin's first movie memorabilia, pulp fiction and comics shop.

source: www.hollywoodreporter.com,  www.aintitcool.com,  

Malcolm X | PopCultureQuotes.com

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

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By: Malcolm X

Context:
Malcolm X was talking about the Civil Rights Movement.

Quentin Tarantino | PopCultureQuotes.com

This whole thing of this 'war on drugs' and the mass incarcerations that have happened pretty much for the last 40 years has just decimated the black male population. It’s slavery. It's just slavery through and through, and it's just the same fear of the black male that existed back in the 1800s.

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By: Quentin Tarantino

Context:
The filmmaker said on the Canadian talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight in December 2012, when discussing the racial issues brought up in his film Django Unchained.