Mainstream Quotes - Page 26

• People might look at you as super-weird, but if that's your obsession, go for it. I do like a lot of mainstream stuff, and sometimes I also like different stuff. I tend to always root for the underdog.

  Kristen Bell

  Roots, People, Underdog

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

  Cornel West

  Creativity, Creative, Priorities

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• Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

  Pete Sampras

  America, Tennis, Fans

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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Hero, Play, Perception

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• Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Media, Ideas, Friendly

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. January 26, 2003.

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• I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Philosophy, Thinking, Media

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• It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.

  Abram Hoffer

  Years, Medicine, Physicians

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• The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

  Jean Louis

  Today, Way, Tomorrow

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• In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

  John Hockenberry

  Israel, America, People

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• That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

  John R. Rickford

  Self, Appreciate, Soul

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• My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Play, Radio, Familiar

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• That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

  Henry Rollins

  Nerves, Looks, Moral

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• I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

  Phil Anselmo

  Albums, Care, Popularity

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

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• I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Hollywood, Stories

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hollywood, Different, Way

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• The mainstream is always under attack.

  Bill Gates

  Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

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• Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it`s either talking about other countries, ancient history or it`s used as a sort of insult, right, a sort of generic right wing epithet that people use to criticize politicians who are at most on the edge of mainstream American political thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Talking, Wings

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• Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Conservative, Republican

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• Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

  Seth Roberts

  Media, Stupidity, Arrogance

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• The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, Tablets, Screens

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• Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stars, Kids, School

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• Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Egypt, Mainstream Culture, Female

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• I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Media, People, Guy

  Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

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• It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

  Lotic

  People, Special, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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