Bill Gates Quotes

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

Bill Gates

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• I was born in the United States, I'm proud to be an American, I'm an American first. But obviously, I'm a Chinese-American. And growing up, my family, my parents, and I think rightly so didn't put us in Chinatown, didn't put us with our other ethnic group, but put us in mainstream America. They're thinking was that will help us assimilate into the mainstream and be a part of it. And it did. It certainly gave me tolerance of other people, of other races, of other ethnicities and I think that's helped make me a better person.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Want
  • Sides
  • Mainstream

• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • America
  • Rebellion
  • Mainstream

• 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 Nirvana
  • Mainstream
  • Nirvana
  • Counterculture

• I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Felt
  • Mainstream
  • Outsiders

• We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore

• Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

  

  Barry Nelson
  • Changed
  • Aunt
  • Mainstream

• Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Judging

• It's nice to have something you think separates you from the mainstream and gives you perspective on that, but it can become very limiting at the same time if it's something you use to artificially define yourself.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Something
  • Mainstream
  • Separates

• In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Comedy
  • Hair
  • Difficult

• Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

  

  Gail Dines
  • Images
  • Considered
  • Mainstream

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Truth
  • American
  • Mainstream

• I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Cancer
  • Direction
  • Doctor

• I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Country
  • Havens
  • Mainstream

• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Quality
  • Musician
  • Taste

• I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.

  

  Nancy Kates
  • Stories
  • Mainstream
  • Topics

• I believe the world has shifted from asked 'if' digital currencies will succeed to 'how and when' digital currencies will become mainstream.

  

  Meltem Demirors
  • Believe
  • Succeed
  • Mainstream

• If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

  

  Evan Glodell
  • Movies
  • Working
  • Mainstream

• I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Vanity
  • Cause

• Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Take

• Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Life
  • Impossible
  • Humor

• The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Mainstream
  • Tablet