{"quotes":[{"text":"Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.","author":"Daniel Rodriguez","tags":["army","celebrity-culture","football","inspirational","military","sports","war"],"id":35880,"author_id":"Daniel+Rodriguez"},{"text":"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.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["1-night-in-paris","celebrity","celebrity-culture","paris-hilton","self-respect"],"id":71532,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Sorry we’re late. Liam had to make sure his hair fell just right.","author":"Kristina Adams","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","hair","vanity"],"id":87300,"author_id":"Kristina+Adams"},{"text":"What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity-gossip","celebutard","dark-humor","fake","fake-people","faking","humor","hype","inner-beauty","kim-kardashian","mainstream-media","plastic","plastic-surgery","prettiness","pretty","real-beauty","shallow-appearances","ugliness"],"id":103830,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity-gossip","celebutard","dark-humor","fake","fake-people","faking","humor","inner-beauty","mainstream-media","marriage","plastic","prettiness","pretty","real-beauty","shallow-appearances","ugliness"],"id":233141,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Holy mama llama. That’s Nathanial Stone. Nathanial Stone is sitting in my booth. Nathanial Stone is in the Finewhile Diner sitting in my booth. I’m supposed to wait on Nathanial Stone. I’m going to make a fool out of myself. I just know it. I can feel it coming. Crap.","author":"D.L. Hess","tags":["celebrities","celebrity","celebrity-culture","cute-meet","funny","funny-and-random","funny-humor","funny","hot-guy","hot-guys","meet","meet-cute","meeting","meeting-new-people","silliness","silly"],"id":262949,"author_id":"D.L.+Hess"},{"text":"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.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["bob-herbert","celebrity","celebrity-culture","darfur","mass-media","media","paris-hilton","popular-culture","sudan","war-in-darfur"],"id":264533,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["artist","artists","be-here-now","celebrate-life","celebration","celebrities","celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity","expressing-oneself","expressing-yourself","expression","expression-of-true-feelings","get-real","good-living","legacy","legacy-life-lessons","legacy","life-after-death","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","live-in-the-here-and-now","live-your-best-life","notice-your-blessings","pay-attention","peace","peace-on-earth","symphony-of-life","truth","truth-be-told","truth-inspirational","truth-of-life","truth-of-life-truth-of-our-story","truth-telling","truths","wisdom","wisdom-wisdom","wisdom-wise","words","world-view","worldliness","worldview","worth","worth","worthiness"],"id":313190,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathetic","apathy","awake","awakened","awakened-heart","awakening","battle","brainwashing","caring","celebrate","celebrities","celebrity","celebrity-culture","change","children","compassion","conditioning","conscience","ego","egoism","empathy","enlighten","enlightenment","fake","fight","fight-together","future","heart","humanism","humanity","humanity","image","initiative","life","love","mass-culture","media","mind","narcissism","pop-culture","programming","revolution","risem-rise-higher","save","save-our-future","save-our-planet","self-absorbed","self-absordness","self-degradation","self-destruction","selfie","selfies","selfish","selfishness","selfless","sleep","social-media","spirituality","superficial","superficiality","united","unity","wake-up","wake-up","world-peace"],"id":332204,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called 'programming' -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["advertising","ity","branding","business","celebrity-culture","command-based","command-systems","condition","conditioning","different","differentm-unique","dislike","eccentric","follow","follower","followers","herd","herd-mentality","how-to-think","individual","individuals","lead","like","marketing","mass-media","masses","media","original","politics","programmed","programming","public","reject","repitition","stands-alone","team","teams","think","trends","unfollow","what-to-like","who-to-follow"],"id":333358,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}