Mainstream Quotes - Page 17

• There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we black folk tend to be much more sensitive about embracing others, and we have a long history of that.

  Cornel West

  White, Long, African American

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• Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Medicine, Body

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

  Nigel Godrich

  Fashion, Bleeding, Music Is

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Games, Skills, Long

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.

  Tommy Chong

  Littles, Comedy, Exciting

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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• I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

  Jan Clausen

  Book, Thinking, Order

  Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”

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• Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.

  Suhaib Webb

  Strong, People, Religion

  "The Daily Debate" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

  Christopher Reeve

  Fighting, Bones, Willing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  America, Quality, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

  Nick Lowe

  Artist, Sound, Records

  Source: www.gq.com

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• WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Government, Media, Long

  "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Design, Guy

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• Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.

  Wendy Rose

  Believe, Writing, Ethnicity

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• Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Horse, Ducks, Water

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• Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

  Tomas Kalnoky

  Rebel, Conform

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• I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Lautner Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1". Press conference, collider.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I think I'm actually a mainstream, popcorn-eating kid. I've always been that, so I'd sit there watching action movies and American moves before I watch other movies quite often because I am that kid. But I've pushed into the more alternative area because that's where it gets really interesting creatively.

  Eddie Izzard

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

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• Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.

  John Landis

  Rocks, Devil, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Ideas, Natural

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• All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

  Neil Young

  Government, Radio, Gone

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Government, Groups

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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