Mainstream Quotes - Page 27

• The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Majority

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

  Mehmet Oz

  Art, Healing, Medical

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• In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Powerful, Stupid, Past

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• I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Long, Care

  "Steve Earle, Folk Hero" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.

  Jim Keith

  Country, Eugenics, Media

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.17, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.

  Howard Gardner

  Education, Impact, Important

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• The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

  Tony Kushner

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  "Tony Kushner: The full interview". Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

  Avicii

  People, Negative

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

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• The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

  George Soros

  Pain, Suffering, Nightmare

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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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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• People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

  Kevin Smith

  People, Parent, Atheism

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• Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

  Eric Liu

  Numbers, Asian, Minorities

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• I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

  Eric Church

  I Can

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• Glee is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  Jack Antonoff

  Gay, Loud Voices, People

  "fun. Interview with Jack Antonoff". Interview with Courtney Kenefick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

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• She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Years, Two, Self

  Gary Shteyngart (2003). “Russian Debutante's Handbook”, p.45, Penguin

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• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.

  Matthew Scully

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.393, St. Martin's Press

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• I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Veins, Hitting, Mass

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

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• The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

  Michael Dibdin

  Real, Trying, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Nov 27, 2011

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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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• 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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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

  Robert Jordan

  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

  Jimmy Wales

  Media, Backgrounds, Materials

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• When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

  Tony D'Souza

  Firsts, Wonder, Figures

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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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