Mainstream Quotes - Page 27

• I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Worry, Political

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• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  Danny Brown

  Real, Long, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• Sometimes I get more of a mainstream crowd that just is not moving to what I'm playing. I have to have crossover secret weapons.

  Larry Tee

  Moving, Secret, Crowds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  Deepak Chopra

  Class, Medicine, Needs

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• I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

  Kevin Drum

  Media, Missing, Vote

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

  Lena Waithe

  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

  Ray Kurzweil

  School, Needs, Afternoon

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• It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.

  Dale Peck

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

  Justin Broadrick

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Strong, Sex, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Sick, Way, Scripts

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• It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster?

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Art, Sex, Essentials

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• I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  Yolanda Adams

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that they advertise on TV are worse than the actual illness they're supposed to prevent, that's like the hackiest joke out there now. If you're still doing that joke, that usually is an indicator of being mainstream, in a bad way.

  Gary Gulman

  Talking, Drug, Way

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