I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
Stephen FryMots clés culture false-dichotomy celebrity-culture celebrity-worship
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary WollstonecraftMots clés wise true celebrity-culture
Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well.
Christopher HitchensMots clés self-respect celebrity paris-hilton celebrity-culture 1-night-in-paris
There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture' or (to redefine this subject) anyone who is uneasy about the systematic, massified cretinization of the major media. If you denounce the excess coverage, you are yourself adding to the excess. If you show even a slight knowledge of the topic, you betray an interest in something that you wish to denounce as unimportant or irrelevant. Some writers try to have this both ways, by making their columns both 'relevant' and 'contemporary' while still manifesting their self-evident superiority. Thus—I paraphrase only slightly—'Even as we all obsess about Paris Hilton, the people of Darfur continue to die.' A pundit like (say) Bob Herbert would be utterly lost if he could not pull off such an apparently pleasing and brilliant 'irony.
Christopher HitchensMots clés celebrity media sudan mass-media popular-culture darfur paris-hilton celebrity-culture bob-herbert war-in-darfur
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P.J. O'RourkeMots clés celebrity celebrities celebrity-culture
But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.
Alyson NoelMots clés beauty skinny celebrity-culture
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?
Jess C. ScottMots clés humor celebutard celebrity inner-beauty dark-humor pretty fake prettiness ugliness hype real-beauty plastic celebrity-culture plastic-surgery faking mainstream-media fake-people celebrity-gossip kim-kardashian shallow-appearances
You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.
Jess C. ScottMots clés humor celebutard marriage celebrity inner-beauty dark-humor pretty fake prettiness ugliness real-beauty plastic celebrity-culture faking mainstream-media fake-people celebrity-gossip shallow-appearances
All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.
Russell BanksMots clés social-commentary celebrity-culture continental-drift
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés celebrity values sports role-models celebrities sportsmanship role-model celebrity-culture sportsman modern-values
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