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"Finland is famous for its views of the northern lights, stunning scenery, saunas, and reindeer."
"Everyone from Nick Cage to Keith Richards, Dr. Evil and Mini Me, The Beatles, even Princess Diana were sporting the shoes."
"Big Tex, a giant 55-foot-tall statue, became a cultural icon of the entire state."
"Who best captures the true meaning of Christmas? Santa, unanimous by a country mile."
"No one would take a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. and do stuff to it."
"The dysfunctional yellow people of Springfield have become pop culture gods."
"Animals like kangaroos, platypuses, and koala bears are easily some of the most recognizable and even beloved animals in American culture."
"Link's appearance isn't his only similarity with Peter Pan however."
"I think for me to say that I'm not inspired by RuPaul or Lady Gaga would be like a slap in the face to their art and their work."
"The real spotlight here has to be the Pixar characters."
"I genuinely don't remember a world before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
"These Pokemon are very good... we're dealing with some of the most powerful Pokemon of all time."
"Philly always gets a bad rap, but you know there's Legends in Philly."
"Brandy is just one of those songs that there's only probably been 50 songs like this but it should be illegal to turn the radio station when that song comes on because it's just such a feel-good song."
"Creating icons such as the Mini from the UK, the Fiat 500 from Italy, and the Volkswagen Beetle from Germany."
"The 50s is Americana post-war Americana Eisenhower apple pie Superman fucking patriotism like all that like yeah was requesting classic yeah the classic."
"The Beatles epitomized perhaps even more than the Beach Boys did the life story trajectory that Manson desired for himself."
"At 32 feet high, the rooftop donut is one of the largest in the world."
"There could be no better guides for our little people than the little people, the munchkins of Oz."
"We have taken that sass, the Sonic hat in the '90s."
"This is the realm of the Japanese equivalent of Freddy Krueger."
"Fairy godmother, hey I heard her wand is in some boring museum."
"Kyrie Irving is the modern day Muhammad Ali not LeBron James or Colin Kaepernick."
"No one is forcing your child to binge-watch all 15 seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race. Trixie Mattel isn't gonna be assigned to your local kindergarten class to teach them how to use Lube."
"Why are we doing a movie with the us cuz King Kong was the big guy in the US right like he was our version of the big monster movie."
"Who is the biggest legend from your country?"
"They never found their identity from a freaking Barbie or a plastic potato."
"Sonic and the 90s. Go Together like America online and dancing, baby."
"Even though he's King Kong, he's Godzilla, and still the king."
"Do you remember the Monopoly man wearing a monocle? Well, you're not the only one. However, if you look at him carefully, you'll realize he's not wearing a monocle. He never has."
"He's the closest thing we have to those old martial arts movies."
"In a world that is pretty leaderless for black folks, we have to go to our superstars. Dr. Anderson is like the LeBron James of the black community."
"Batman and Spider-Man are timeless, they'll never die off, two of the greatest characters in fiction."
"Every time you kill another black man, you're saying [ __ ] my Luther King."
"Motown or how I would look at a Sam Cook photo with Malcolm X and you know what I'm saying like that's how I looked at Jay was like damn."
"Forever Young: Legends remain frozen in their glory years."
"If Van Gogh was our 20th-century artist saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one."
"20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Steve Jobs"
"Seeing yourself represented in characters like this, especially big mainstream characters with big iconic names like Superman, is gonna help so many people."
"If David Bowie wore an enormous amount of makeup, so can I."
"New Godzilla, maybe not the worst thing, right? Think about it, Godzilla not an alien, comes from the water."
"I found it. There you go. I've been reading books of old, the legends and the myths. Achilles and his gold, Hercules and his gifts, Spider-Man's control, Batman with his fists."
"David loves that, he loved Jack Parr, David did you know?"
"I liken the family to the Jacksons if you will, I liken the family to the Marleys."
"Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, the most famous and influential singer of all time."
"We're gonna go back to our biggest icon."
"Who would you put in your Hollywood Rushmore?"
"Three icons bro, bleach sold over 100 million copies, it's bleach and then jujutsu kaisen right now."
"Bob Marley is just not a musician to us, Peter Tush is not a musician to us."
"Nostalgia for stuff they grew up with like Power Rangers or Pokemon... those things never went away."
"There's only one Sinatra, there's only one Presley."
"Sweden... a nation known for PewDiePie, Ikea, meatballs, and genuinely really nice people."
"Handel, who represents music and watches over the orchestra pit, and Shakespeare, who represents drama and gazes over the audience."
"There's two things you don't mess with: Elvis and Santa."
"We had these heroes; they were our superheroes."
"It's like Picasso and Beethoven, different kind of Arts."
"It's Alice Walker, it's Jordan Peele, it's Zora Neale Hurston, it's Langston Hughes."