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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. -- Arianna Huffington
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. -- Marco Rubio
Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance. -- Seth Roberts
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory -- Michel Chossudovsky
Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores. -- Molly Crabapple
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. -- George W. S. Trow
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here. -- Michelle Shocked
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. -- Douglas Wilder
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally. -- Courtney Love
Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well. -- Chris Hardwick
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there. -- Nick Park
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase. -- Marilyn Manson
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled. -- Rodger Kamenetz
I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election. -- Roseanne Barr
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. -- Michael Haneke
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch. -- Jason Patric
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. -- Jodie Foster
I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me. -- Bill Hicks
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. -- Marina Abramovic
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job. -- Jesse Ventura
I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life. -- Peter Jennings
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. -- David Cronenberg
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider. -- Matt Drudge
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. -- Carter Burwell
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. -- Jean M. Auel
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. -- Larry David
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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
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. -- Jerry Springer
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. -- Joe Biden
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. -- Anthony Anderson
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. -- Ang Lee
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. -- William Labov
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. -- Mark Strand
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out. -- J. Cole
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. -- Roger Ebert
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
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part. -- Jean M. Auel
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. -- Bob Dylan
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. -- Henry Giroux
A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream! -- Tim Pawlenty
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. -- E. O. Wilson
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. -- William Gibson
You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive. -- Phil Anselmo
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
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
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular. -- Rick Astley
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. -- Thom Yorke
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within. -- Reza Aslan
I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world. -- Rob McElhenney
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
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. -- Neil Gaiman
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. -- Josh Fox
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. -- William Gibson
I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page. -- Al Franken
I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. -- Ronnie Dunn
I'm mainstream. Always have been. -- Bill Walton
The mainstream is always under attack. -- Bill Gates
I would say that I'm pretty mainstream. -- Ron Paul
My proposal happens to be very mainstream. -- Noam Chomsky
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man. -- David Ogden Stiers
Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. -- Paul Watson
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream. -- Anurag Kashyap
I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream. -- Beeban Kidron
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters. -- Steven Berkoff
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. -- Tomas Kalnoky
What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics. -- Bill Ayers
By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. -- Robert Casey
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. -- Rush Limbaugh
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. -- Jon Stewart
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream -- Rush Limbaugh
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. -- Richard Powers
Alternative music is no longer alternative once itâ??s in the mainstream. -- Kurt Cobain
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
I think the best person in Hillary Clinton's campaign is mainstream media. -- Donald Trump
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo. -- Billy Corgan
I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. -- Eric Church
I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating. -- Bakari Kitwana
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. -- Bill Gates
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. -- Issa Rae
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals. -- Mehmet Oz
What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values. -- Preston Manning
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up. -- John Naisbitt
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up. -- John Naisbitt
I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be. -- John Mulaney
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. -- Jessica Sanchez
I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade. -- Andy Grove
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream. -- Demi Lovato
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. -- Bruce Jackson
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. -- Iain Duncan Smith
The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films. -- Robert Redford
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened. -- Anne Enright
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. -- David Remnick
The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music. -- Kendrick Lamar
I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me. -- Jessie Ware
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work. -- Bill Jensen
Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas. -- Janeane Garofalo
People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color. -- Issa Rae
Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers. -- Tim Wu
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. -- Jimmy Wales
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. -- Anurag Kashyap
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. -- Ashton Kutcher
I'm not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics -- Robert Sarvis
The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. -- Anurag Kashyap
Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America. -- Rush Limbaugh
Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. -- Naomi Wolf
My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense. -- Kelly Sue DeConnick
Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out. -- Natalie MacMaster
I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American. -- Newt Gingrich

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