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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• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  Naveen Andrews

  Writing, Color, People

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

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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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• I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

  Jodie Foster

  Ambition, Popcorn, Bigs

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• My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

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• 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 now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
  world government. 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, Light

  "The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets". Book by William Caniano, 2007.

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• I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

  William Labov

  America, Community, Minorities

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• It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

  Larry David

  People, Comedy, Kind

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

  Michel Gondry

  People, Way, Sometimes

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• I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

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• Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Dark, Trying, Granted

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• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

  Michael Pollan

  Party, Agreement, Two

  "Michael Pollan on Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.tomdispatch.com.

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• The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

  Curt Weldon

  Media, Want, Facts

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• As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Mainstream Society, Media, Support

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• Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

  John Naisbitt

  Lawyer, Beavers, Damn

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• I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

  Mark Strand

  Mainstream Society, America, Culture

  "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

  Michael Vick

  Mean, People, Prison

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

  Robert Glasper

  Media, Secret, Majority

  "Glasper revels in success of hybrid jazz album". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 06, 2012.

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• I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

  John Astin

  Fun, Long, Lotuses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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• The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Government, Color, People

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