Mainstream Quotes - Page 14

• [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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• Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Views, Media, Should Have

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• What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.

  Manning Marable

  Writing, Rights, Islam

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Yes You Can, Icons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Doctrine

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Crazy, Believe, Book

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

  Mo Rocca

  War, People, Focus

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• [Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Republican, Controversial

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Able, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

  John Mulaney

  Tables, Rooms, Sometimes

  Source: uproxx.com

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• The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Media, Perfect

  Source: latinalista.com

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• I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

  John Mulaney

  Swings, Sides, Kind

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

  John Mulaney

  Ideas, Might

  "Best comedy 2013: John Mulaney interview". Interview with Matthew Love, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

  Neige

  Thinking, People, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.

  Tom Hooper

  Acceptance, Issues, People

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Inerview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me realize we've got forest fires that we collectively need to be focused on.

  Paula Broadwell

  Fire, Mistress, Needs

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Sweet, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Two, People, Shapes

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.

  Joe Budden

  Sky, Keys, People

  "Interview: Joe Budden picture". www.askmen.com.

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• People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

  Eileen Myles

  People, Like You, Discovering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Discrimination, Breaking Down, Polish

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.

  Cindy Margolis

  Children, Miracle, Adoption

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.

  Immortal Technique

  Successful, Identity, Carbon

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Simple, Trying Different Things

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• If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

  Thom Yorke

  Mother, Artist, Wings

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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