Mainstream Quotes

• 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.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Music
  • Business
  • Way

• 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

• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  

  Rush Limbaugh
  • Feminism
  • Access
  • Mainstream

• 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.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Problems
  • Create
  • Respond

• Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

  

  Stéphane Paut
  • People
  • Style
  • Sometimes

• 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

• The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Should
  • Information
  • Curiosity

• What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Education
  • Health
  • Choice

• Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Lazy

• 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.

  

  Nell Zink
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Mainstream

• You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

  

  Erika Jayne
  • Mainstream

• Due to the closure of many deaf schools in the U.K., deaf children are forced to attend mainstream school. I don't mind this idea: I think it's inclusive, and it better prepares children for life in a hearing world. I don't mind this idea - if that child gets the right support.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Children
  • School
  • Support

• 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

• Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Temptation
  • Flow
  • Resolve

• 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
  • Punk Rock

• 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
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Provide

• 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.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Want
  • Reason

• I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Media
  • Theory

• Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • America
  • Washington
  • 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
  • Global Warming

• This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

  

  Bob Muglia
  • Government
  • Market
  • Machines

• We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Members
  • Mainstream

• For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Powerful
  • Message
  • Extremely

• 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

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