Mainstream Quotes

• I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Revolutionary Ideas

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• Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

  Arianna Huffington

  Wisdom, Media, Filters

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• Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

  Marco Rubio

  Media, Class, People

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.

  Joe Biden

  Stupid, Nice, Mean

  "Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny" by Xuan Thai, Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2007.

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

  Steven Berkoff

  Looks, Garbage, Theater

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• Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Fun, Independent, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Good Work, Committed

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

  Howard Fineman

  Party, Mean, Eye

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• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jazz

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• Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

  Matt Drudge

  Mean, Outsiders, Stills

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• Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Heart, Cool Jazz, Bebop

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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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• They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

  Marilyn Manson

  Moving, Rocks, Phases

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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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• Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Thinking, Violence

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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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• Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

  Walter Annenberg

  Economic, Young

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• Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

  Joe Scarborough

  Media, Troops, News

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• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Religious, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

  Curt Weldon

  Media, Want, Knows

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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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