Rick Moranis Quotes

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

I am a product of the 1950s.

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.

I think the more wholesome things that come back to television, the better off we'll be.

I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.