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“I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.”

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Author:Steve Albini

“I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.”

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Author:Sigourney Weaver

“It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster?”

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Author:John Cameron Mitchell

“I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.”

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Author:Mitch Albom

“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'.”

“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.”

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Author:Yolanda Adams

“Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.”

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Author:Pete Sampras

“I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it`s either talking about other countries, ancient history or it`s used as a sort of insult, right, a sort of generic right wing epithet that people use to criticize politicians who are at most on the edge of mainstream American political thought.”

“Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.”

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Author:Seth Roberts

“The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The mainstream is always under attack.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.”

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Author:Phil Anselmo

“In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.”

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Author:Abhishek Bachchan

“Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.”

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Author:Luis Gonzalez

“It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.”

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Author:Lotic

“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.”

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Author:Gary Gulman

“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.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.”

“...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.”

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Author:Catherine Opie

“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”

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Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.”

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Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.”

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Author:Charles Colson

“I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?”

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Author:Sebastian Bach

“We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make”

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Author:Chris Cunningham

“Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.”

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Author:Greg Graffin

“The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.”

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Author:Joseph L. Bast

“In any event, it has never been true that we ignore mainstream science; and anyone who reads AEI publications closely can see that we are not 'skeptics' about warming. It is possible to accept the general consensus about the existence of global warming while having valid questions about the extent of warming, the consequences of warming, and the appropriate responses.”

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Author:Steven F. Hayward

“Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.”

“It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.”

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Author:Joe Budden

“People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.”

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Author:Eileen Myles

“Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.”

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Author:Kim Hyesoon

“That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.”

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Author:Cindy Margolis

“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.”

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Author:Immortal Technique

“I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.”

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Author:Michelle Shocked

“The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.”

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Author:Sasha Frere-Jones

“When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.”

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Author:John Mulaney

“I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?”

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Author:John Mulaney

“I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.”

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Author:John Mulaney

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