Appearances in Popular Culture
- The song is played during the Manhattan gallery scene in the hip-hop film Wild Style (1983)
- Blondie's recording is featured in the film 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- The song appears in the film The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
- Blondie's version is used on Nip/Tuck last chapter of its first season, "Escobar Gallardo".
- The Blondie track is also featured in the Steve McQueen film Shame (2011).
- The hook's melody is used in dubstep producer Doctor P's song "Galaxies & Stars."
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“Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”
—Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)