Mainstream Quotes - Page 3

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Views, Effort

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• I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

  Mary Douglas

  Mainstream Society, People, Rewards

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• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Jerry Springer

  Mainstream Society, Television, Behavior

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

  Bobby Flay

  Media, Long, Cooking

  "Bobby Flay Talks Career, Passion, and Food Network Stardom". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2011.

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• There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

  Werner Herzog

  Law, Substance, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Iris Chang

  Baby, Couple, White

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• We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

  Donna Shalala

  Country, Growing Up, School

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• Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

  Tim Kaine

  Rights, Race, Doe

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• I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

  Stacie Orrico

  Christian, Artist, Together

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Grateful, Past

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• Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

  David Rockefeller

  World Government, Order, Evil Government

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• The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, World Government

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• I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Play, World

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• We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.

  Martin Rees

  Views, Numbers, Peaceful

  "Martin Rees: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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• I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

  David Cross

  Weed, Thinking, Smoking

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• For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Battle, Identity, Culture

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• The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

  Steven Berkoff

  Looks, Garbage, Theater

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• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Jobs, Organization, Covering

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Media, Cnn

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• Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Successful, Trying

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• A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

  Tim Pawlenty

  Jobs, Commitment, Common Sense

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• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jazz

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• Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

  John Kufuor

  Globalization, Higher Education, Higher

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