I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.
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.
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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.
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.
I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.
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.
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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.
The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
Technical garments for sporting performance will, I believe, simply become more and more fit for purpose and will perform better and better. What is perhaps more interesting is how this technology will cross over into the fashion mainstream. We already see this trend in everything from footwear to outerwear.
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.
The mainstream is always under attack.
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now
If I came across a role that is completely mainstream [and] commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.
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?
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.