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Celebrity culture is something that pains me. -- Susie Orbach
Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be. -- Paloma Faith
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. -- Anderson Cooper
I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people. -- Marina and the Diamonds
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. -- Steve Coogan
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. -- Chris Martin
I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that. -- Marina and the Diamonds
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. -- Heather Mills
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules. -- Nick Clegg
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. -- Stephen King
If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? -- Ryan Giggs
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. -- Carl Hiaasen
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness. -- Kathy Griffin
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. -- Chris Hedges
I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture. -- Debra Messing
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty. -- Philip Yancey
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today! -- Nigel Hamilton
This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star. -- Marina and the Diamonds
There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much. -- Mohsin Hamid
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body. -- Philip Yancey
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. -- Frank Rich
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it. -- Alice Oswald
Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories. -- Mal Fletcher
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline. -- Zoe Cassavetes
The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing. -- Sophia Myles
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. -- Stephen Mallinder
You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity. -- Kristen Stewart
I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. -- Laurie Foos
We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture. -- Eva Mendes
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. -- Cornel West
I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them. -- Merrill Markoe
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. -- Lady Gaga
I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful. -- Annie Lennox

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