Mainstream Quotes - Page 20

• My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

  Jhene Aiko

  Destiny, Goal, Going With The Flow

  Source: earstyle.net

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• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  Kylie Minogue

  Roles, Chance, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Records, My Favorite, Vocal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Execution, Attention

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.

  Andrew Weil

  Thinking, Technology, Medicine

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mom, Confused, Mean

  "Chris Hardwick, the King of All Things Nerdist and Host of @Midnight, Drops 20Q Science". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

  Mark Klett

  Photography, Art, Museums

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• ...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

  Catherine Opie

  Ideas, Representation, Happens

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• Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau

  Photography, Art, Exhausted

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• Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.

  Karan Bajaj

  New York, Character, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• [In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these movements have run their course. I think what I miss about it is the collective experience.

  Don Letts

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

  Michael Skolnik

  Fighting, Justice, Leaving

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

  Pauly Shore

  Son, Law, Mtv

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• My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Husband, Community, Loyal

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• Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Media, Oil

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. September 7, 2003.

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• Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Fighting, Performances

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

  Antonin Scalia

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Jennifer Senior, nymag.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Investing, World

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• It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

  Ti West

  Character, Important, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

  Bob Barr

  Philosophy, Party, School

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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• I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

  David Gordon Green

  Skills, Icons, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Fighting, Peaceful

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• We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Issues, Needs

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