Pop Culture Quotes

Pop Culture Quotes is an ongoing public interest project that shares quotes from the famous (and the infamous).

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,  

William Shakespeare from Richard III | PopCultureQuotes.com

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

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By: William Shakespeare

Context:
Act V, Scene IV of Shakespeare's Richard III, quoted in an AM New York article about the real Richard III's remains being found in excavations of a medieval friary under a city park in London, England. The discovery was made by a team from the University of Leicester.

source: AM New York,  

William Shakespeare from Richard III | PopCultureQuotes.com

The world has grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

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By: William Shakespeare

Context:
Act I, Scene III of Shakespeare's Richard III, quoted in an AM New York article about the real Richard III's remains being found in excavations of a medieval friary under a city park in London, England. The discovery was made by a team from the University of Leicester.

source: AM New York,  

William Shakespeare from Richard III | PopCultureQuotes.com

Now is the winter of our discontent.

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By: William Shakespeare

Context:
Act I, Scene I of Shakespeare's Richard III, quoted in an AM New York article about the real Richard III's remains being found in excavations of a medieval friary under a city park in London, England. The discovery was made by a team from the University of Leicester.

source: AM New York,  

Tina Fey from 30 Rock | PopCultureQuotes.com

I don’t have any money if that’s what you’re after. And I’m not one of those girls that does weird stuff in bed because they think they have to. If you’re a gay guy looking for a beard, I don’t do that anymore. And if you’re trying to harvest my organs and sell them, I have an uncle who’s a cop so don’t even try it.

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By: Tina Fey

Context:
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon on the NBC show 30 Rock. (Season 1, 2006, Episode 11)

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.