In Popular Culture
- The movie Fitzcarraldo (1982) was filmed near Iquitos. The film was inspired by the real life rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)