Quotes About The Mainstream

#1. These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Imran Khan

#2. In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.

Shirley Manson

#3. I think Ronald Reagan is what happened ... The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream ... It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

Douglas Brinkley

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

Joseph L. Bast

#5. I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

Bobby Flay

#6. Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Michael Moore

#7. The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh ... Steve?

Ann Coulter

#8. In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

Charlton Heston

#9. The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Jon Stewart

#10. No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

Twyla Tharp

#11. They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

Marilyn Manson

#12. The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

Gerald Chertavian

#13. I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch

#14. I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.

Mark Bradford

#15. I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

John Astin

#16. The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything.

David Brooks

#17. 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.

Lotic

#18. Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

Eric Drooker

#19. The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Miliband

#20. Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

Robert Glasper

#21. 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

#22. The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

Curt Weldon

#23. All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Ray Kurzweil

#24. The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Lionel Barber

#25. Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

Aravind Adiga

#26. will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is

Laura Thompson

#27. I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

Princess Superstar

#28. Alternative music is no longer alternative once it's in the mainstream.

Kurt Cobain

#29. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

Henry Giroux

#30. Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Eric Liu

#31. Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

Stewart Brand

#32. I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan has always been to be read more widely by doing just what I've always done. I wanted to break into the mainstream without becoming mainstream.

Joe R. Lansdale

#33. I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

Marshall Curry

#34. When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

Noam Chomsky

#35. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals who were princely in their solitude, lords of their own unpraised melancholy.

Pat Conroy

#36. One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.

Arnold Beichman

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

Margaret Craven

#38. Unless the number of people who are labeled felons is dramatically reduced, and unless the laws and policies that keep ex-offenders marginalized from the mainstream society and economy are eliminated, the system will continue to create and maintain an enormous undercaste.

Michelle Alexander

#39. After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

Ted Cruz

#40. The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#41. I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#42. Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

Matt Drudge

#43. 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.

Ali Liebegott

#44. I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.

Mike Pence

#45. People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

Marc Martel

#46. There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#47. 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

#48. It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

Chuck Baldwin

#49. Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

Tomas Kalnoky

#50. Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

John Agyekum Kufuor

#51. Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

Kevin Drum

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

John Mulaney

#53. 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

#54. I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.

Jacqueline Carey

#55. Damn it, if just 5% of people got motivated in some direction, and it doesn't necessarily have to be what I believe in, but if they just got motivated and stopped getting their political ideologies from the mainstream media, they would go out and figure out what they want.

Alex Jones

#56. Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.

Nancy Isenberg

#57. There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.

Andrew Wyatt

#58. Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Jeffrey Brown

#59. Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

Thurston Moore

#60. I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

Charles Stross

#61. Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew 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.

Nas

#62. Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

Jesse Ventura

#63. For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

Ruth Ozeki

#64. There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

Dawn Angelique

#65. I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

Bernard Goldberg

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

Dennis Miller

#67. She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

Gary Shteyngart

#68. Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

Tim Kaine

#69. For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

Tom DeLay

#70. The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.

Anna Kessel

#71. I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.

Lindsey Graham

#72. I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#73. It's 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.

Iris Chang

#74. The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

Charles R. Swindoll

#75. Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.

Edward Snowden

#76. My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Jessica Sanchez

#77. It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits ... of the majority are going to be.

Rose Bird

#78. You gotta look beyond the mainstream ... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

Phil Anselmo

#79. 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

#80. Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Thurston Moore

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

Rush Limbaugh

#82. Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

Paul Hawken

#83. Of course, it was the United States and Israel that had rejected diplomacy and the PLO that had been offering compromise for years, but Lewis's reversal of the facts was quite normal and unchallenged in the mainstream.

Noam Chomsky

#84. You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.

Joe Haldeman

#85. 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

#86. It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Daniel Clowes

#87. Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy.

Michelle Alexander

#88. It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

George Carlin

#89. Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Ted Sarandos

#90. Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

Nigel Godrich

#91. It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

Billy Corgan

#92. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Michael Dibdin

#93. 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

Chris Cunningham

#94. Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Jeremy Rifkin

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

Walter Annenberg

#96. Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.

Bill Jensen

#97. I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Bill Hicks

#98. You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Kinky Friedman

#99. I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice.

Daniel Smith

#100. I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Nigel Kennedy