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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?”

Children Long Ten Absolutes Humanism Mainstream Commandments Pornography Abandonment Ten Commandments Relativism

Author:Randall Terry

“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.”

Thinking Way Want Should Wells Different Able Young Artist Streets Right Now Different Things Rapper Mainstream

Author:Meek Mill

“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.”

People Way Kind Fit Pressure Awful Who We Are Acceptable Mainstream Reflecting

Author:Lenny Abrahamson

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

Christian Growth Study Tests Mainstream Quietness Christian Growth

Book:Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

“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.”

Feels Has Beens Fiction Technology Science Fiction Caught Mainstream Caught Up

Author:Alaina Huffman

“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.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Shows Lost Tvs Standards Raised Bars Broke Mainstream Tv Shows Cables Advent Hbo Sopranos

Author:Nestor Carbonell

“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.”

Different Film Normal Scripts Mainstream Not Interested Quirky

Author:Gina Bellman

“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.”

Kind Culture Social White Class Taken Groups Middle Middle Class Mainstream Norm Social Norms Bland Deviation

Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“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.”

People Long Shows I Realized Mainstream Solo Iphone

Author:Robert Glasper

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

Movement Independent Cinema Mainstream

Author:Haile Gerima

“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.”

Want Feels Book States Reading Gay Clubs Lists Welcome Mainstream Publishing Discouraged Book Club

Author:Ali Liebegott

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

Thinking Seems Dies Attention Wrestling Mainstream Pro Wrestling

Author:CM Punk

“If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.”

Ifs World Years Suffering Our Lives Middle Live By Mainstream Headlines

Author:Richard Rohr

“I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.”

People Want Reason Mainstream

Author:Conor Oberst

“I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.”

Thinking Matter Problem No Matter What Capitalist Mainstream

Author:Eve Ensler

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.”

Ifs Has Beens Reason Facts Cutting Fundamentals Decades Boat Global Warming Mainstream Veteran Detachment Skeptic Disregard Drifting

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.”

Littles Strange Towns Mainstream Little Towns Hang Over

Author:Margaret Craven

“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”

People Ifs Needs May Ideas Play Moving Audience Week Behavior Perception Producers Mainstream Masterpiece Fringe Promoters

Author:David Bornstein

“I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.”

People Thinking Real Acting Appreciation Cinema Realistic Mainstream Bad Acting

Author:Bruce LaBruce

“I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.”

Feels Looks Persons Doe I Can Certain Choices Gone Fans Judging Industry Pops Appeals Mainstream Pop Music Music Industry

Author:Patti Smith

“Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.”

Want Artist Caught Hip Hop Hips Hops Phenomenon Thinker Mainstream Hip Hop Artist

Author:Nas

“I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.”

Thinking Knows Trying Might Film Experiments Mainstream

Author:Mara Wilson

“Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.”

Ifs Way Black White Steps Racism Granted Rejoice Mainstream

Book:It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races

Source: It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races

“I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.”

Made Ability Developing Mainstream Artifacts

Book:Within the Context of No Context

Source: Within the Context of No Context

“Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.”

Ifs Years Political Politician Establishment Mainstream

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.”

Thinking Seems America House Lost President White Results Terrorist Administration White House Mainstream Site Disconnected Mosques Terrorist Attacks Unwise

Author:John Cornyn

“Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.”

Knows I Can Film Violence Directors Standards Mainstream Specialists

Author:Michael Haneke

“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.”

Ifs Different Home Answers Raises Cinema Mainstream Spectators Raises Questions

Author:Michael Haneke

“I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.”

People World Want Needs Art Form Hate Difficult Situation Clear Fine I Hate Cinema Mainstream Difficult Situations

Author:Michael Haneke

“Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.”

Has Beens Stuff Mainstream

Author:Steve Buscemi

“In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.”

People Way Able Interesting South Mainstream Deviants

Author:Nell Zink

“[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.”

Writing Stills Scripts Mainstream Writing Scripts

Author:Rob Zombie

“I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.”

World Real Deals Fiction Fantasy Elements Real World Mainstream

Author:Stephen King

“Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.”

Groups Becoming Boring Mainstream Homosexual Entering Tedious Splinters

Author:Dennis Miller

“I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Wanted Remember Speak Stuff Water Interesting Stupid Jokes Yeah Made It One Time Mainstream

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.”

Stills Home Bigs Remember Father Seeing Influence Boat Mainstream Sailing Bermuda

Author:David Crosby

“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.”

Thinking Bits Musician Singers Rough Performers Mainstream Underrated

Author:Rick Astley

“We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.”

Should Views Numbers Conflict Evidence Scientist Strive Debate Peaceful Excellent Mainstream Strands Dogmatic Coexistence Creationism Peaceful Coexistence

Author:Martin Rees

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

Humans Human Beings Fiction Reader Complexes Mainstream

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.”

Culture White Wonderful Tvs Baby Couple Population Credit Cards Chinese Ads Mainstream Wonderful Things Credit Card Chinese Culture

Author:Iris Chang

“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.”

Individual Nations Black Stage Particular Capable Assumption Mainstream Representation Guerrillas

Author:Aberjhani

“The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.”

Kids Stones Mainstream Rebellious

Author:Ian Schrager

“Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its 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.”

People Way Humans Speak Interest Can Do Media Fashion Approach Independent Depth Compassionate Mainstream Documentaries Lenses Pathways Mainstream Media Renegades

Author:Josh Fox

“When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.”

Young Artist Groups Designer Belonging Mainstream Introducing Young Artists

Author:David Mazzucchelli

“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.”

Trying Heart Culture Lines Half Middle Missing Events My Heart Majors Originals Pops Mainstream Pop Culture Upbringing

Author:Michael De Luca

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

Young Economic Mainstream

Author:Walter Annenberg

“Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics.' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.”

Want Concerned Physics Versions Mathematical Idiot Officials Mainstream Mathematician Physicist Newton

Author:Bill Gaede

“There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we black folk tend to be much more sensitive about embracing others, and we have a long history of that.”

Long Black White Doubt Institutions Including Folks African American Sensitive No Doubt Mainstream Symbolic Cosmetics

Author:Cornel West

“Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.”

Body Causes Disease Stress Medicine Mainstream Recognizing

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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