#pop

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#bottom line #case #decide #different #feel

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. ↗

— David Bromstad

#colors #happy #optimistic #popular #purple

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comfortably #die #dog #hot #hot dog

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. ↗

— Michael Buble

#because #big #biggest #black #come

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. ↗

— Sammy Cahn

#america #greatest #popular #song

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#audience #been #classic #cult #embraced