In Popular Culture
The RISP features prominently in the comedy film Me, Myself and Irene, with Jim Carrey playing a state trooper affected with multiple personality disorder.
In the television series Brotherhood (2006 TV series) the character of Declan Giggs, portrayed by the actor Ethan Embry, is a Rhode Island State Police Detective.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Whats wrong, a little pavement sickness?”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“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.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)