Mainstream Quotes - Page 7

• [Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but unseen when it comes to the parameters of what mainstream news and popular culture and Hollywood reflects.

  Peter van Agtmael

  America, Unseen, Hollywood

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• I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y'all are incredibly important. You are incredibly important number one in shocking and terrifying the mainstream media.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  Source: time.com

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• Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.

  Jay Ruderman

  Attitude, Gay, People

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• I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Spiritual, Yoga, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.

  Grace Dunham

  Sex, Play, Want

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

  Ti West

  Character, Important, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the Second World War. You couldn't be opposed to the war for years. The mainstream liberal intellectuals were enthusiastically in support of the war. In Boston, a liberal city where I was, we literally couldn't have a public demonstration without it being violently broken up, with the liberal press applauding, until late 1966.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Boston, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Media, Issues

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Hurt, Thinking, Media

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.

  Michelle Alexander

  Appreciation, Jobs, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cities, Oil, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.

  Tom Gjelten

  Way, Trump, Consistent

  "With His Choice Of Inauguration Prayer Leaders, Trump Shows His Values". "Morning Edition" with Richel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2017.

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• Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Fighting, Performances

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• Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Media, Oil

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. September 7, 2003.

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

  Antonin Scalia

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Jennifer Senior, nymag.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Investing, World

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• America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Race, Color, America

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• I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Jobs, Emotional, Trying

  "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• I don't know what to believe in the mainstream media anymore. My instinct is to not believe any of it, and it's their fault.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Media, Faults

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

  Bob Barr

  Philosophy, Party, School

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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• I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

  David Gordon Green

  Skills, Icons, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

  Jamie Foxx

  Black, Comedian, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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