References in Popular Culture
Astor's name is shown on one of the page buttons on an apartment building in Mel Brooks' 2005 movie musical The Producers.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)