Muhammad Ali | PopCultureQuotes.com
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.
Barry Corbin from No Country for Old Men | PopCultureQuotes.com
Well all the time ya spend tryin' to get back what's been took from ya, more is goin' out the door.
By: Barry Corbin
Characters: Ellis
From: No Country for Old Men
Context:
Ellis, played by actor Barry Corbin in No Country for Old Men (2007). Ellis was speaking to Sherrif Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who asked what Ellis would have done if the man who had shot him and put him a wheelchair, had been released from prison. The jailed man had just died in prison.
Christoph Waltz from Spectre | PopCultureQuotes.com
It was me James, the author of all your pain.
By: Christoph Waltz
Characters: Franz Oberhauser
From: Spectre
Context:
Franz Oberhauser, played by actor Christoph Waltz, says this to James Bond early on in the movie Spectre. The quote hints Waltz's character has historical ties to the British secret agent.
Tim Cook | PopCultureQuotes.com
We’ve had a long relationship with music, and music has had a rich history of change, some of which we’ve played a part in.
By: Tim Cook
Context:
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces Apple Music at the 2015 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
Thom Yorke | PopCultureQuotes.com
It's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that.
By: Thom Yorke
Context:
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke hits back at campaign to stop the band from playing a concert in Israel. The petitioners included Nobel Prize-winning anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, novelist Alice Walker and Thurston Moore of alternative rock pioneers Sonic Youth.
Elon Musk | PopCultureQuotes.com
Context:
Elon Musk on the dangers of A.I. development and its potential affects on humanity.
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.
Ernie Paniccioli | PopCultureQuotes.com
I believe the spirit that imbues hip-hop can change the world. Hip-hop as an entity has been colonized by corporations, politicians.
It went from something that was organized to something that is crafted and plastic.
By: Ernie Paniccioli
Context:
Hip Hop photographer Paniccioli commenting on his thoughts about the current state of hip hop culture and how it's changed. The comments were made during an exhibit of his shots of hip hop artists such as Nas and many others.
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.
Diem Brown | PopCultureQuotes.com
It's my personal perspective that you live as hard and as vigorously as you can. My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.
By: Diem Brown
Context:
Reality show star Diem Brown, on her fight with cancer. It was a battle she lost on Friday, November 14th, 2014 at 10:22 a.m. in New York City. She was 32 years old.
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.