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Mainstream Quotes

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Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
John Naisbitt

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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
Natalie MacMaster

3.
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
Jim Jarmusch

4.
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
Andrew Dost

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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

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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
Alex Kapranos

7.
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
Virginia Foxx

8.
I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.
John Mulaney

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The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Steven Berkoff

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When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.
Krist Novoselic

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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Billie Joe Armstrong

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Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
Thurston Moore

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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
Bharati Mukherjee

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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster

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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
John Kufuor

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

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What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
Ashton Kutcher

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The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.
Richard Florida

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Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down.
Eric Trump

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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
Carl Bernstein

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I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
David Ogden Stiers

22.
Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.
Tomas Kalnoky

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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

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I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
Peter Jennings

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The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.
Derrick Jensen

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You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
Kinky Friedman

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Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
Jason Patric

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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
Matt Drudge

29.
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

30.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
William Hurt

31.
...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.
Catherine Opie

32.
There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.
Jeffrey Wigand

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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
Young Buck

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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Imran Khan

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I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
Famke Janssen

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The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.
Curt Weldon

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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
Walter Annenberg

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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
Willem Dafoe

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I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Newt Gingrich

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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

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These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.
David Icke

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There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
Anurag Kashyap

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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
Rob Zombie

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The mainstream is always under attack.
Bill Gates

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Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.
Paul Beatty

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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Bill Gates

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I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
Dick Cheney

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A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.
Sadat X

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I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
Christopher Reeve

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I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.
Pharrell Williams