Mainstream Quotes - Page 22

• Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  School, Scientist, Consulting

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• Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.

  Rob Sheffield

  Past, Years, Black

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• The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

  Nate Silver

  Ideas, Printing, Luther

  "'Signal' And 'Noise': Prediction As Art And Science". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 10, 2012.

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• I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

  Kevin Smith

  Book, Home, Writing

  "Kevin Smith: Tough Talk". Interview with Cameron Martin, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Rap, Ghetto

  "We are family". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2005.

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• The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Moving, Winning

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• I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Media, Way

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• Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Media, Wikileaks

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

  Jessie Ware

  Way, Dance Music

  "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Taste, Bigs

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• I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

  Takafumi Horie

  Change, Mean, Japan

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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• That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.

  Cesar Romero

  Country, Stars, Men

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• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

  Randall Terry

  Children, Long, Abandonment

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• I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

  Meek Mill

  Thinking, Rapper, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  People, Who We Are, Awful

  Source: collider.com

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• The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Growth, Tests

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.147, Zondervan

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• I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

  Alaina Huffman

  Technology, Fiction, Caught

  "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.

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• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

  Gina Bellman

  Quirky, Different, Scripts

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• in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

  Robert Glasper

  Iphone, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

  Haile Gerima

  Independent, Cinema, Movement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Reading, Gay

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

  CM Punk

  Wrestling, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.gq.com

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