Rhode Island In Popular Culture
The state of Rhode Island is often depicted in popular culture, partly due to its natives the Farrelly brothers and former residence of the creator of the television show Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane. The following is a list of popular culture in Rhode Island.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Beyond this island bound
By a thin sea of flesh
And a bone coast ...”
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“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”
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“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
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