Mainstream Quotes

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob Dylan

Music, Culture, Started

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.
Ron Paul

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
Jonathan Kozol

Society, Today, Understand

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Human, Start

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

Women, Feminism, Easier

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

Rock, Matter, Move

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
Marco Rubio

Today, Political, American

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton

Different, Through, Play

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
Bill Hicks

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
Rush Limbaugh

Today, Important, Talking

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
Robert Plant

Time, Leaving, Working

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
Billy Corgan

Two, Between, Here

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Billy Corgan

Rock, Lost, Culture

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
David Hockney

Work, Art, Mind

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Listen, Jazz, Mainly

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Larry David

Comedy, Hear, Coming

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
Ang Lee

Wanted, Quite, Realistic

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Beauty, Rock, Punk

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
Diablo Cody

Women, Experience, Children

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
David Ogden Stiers

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.
Jenny McCarthy

Best, School, Getting

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
Jon Meacham

Faith, Political, Thought

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Nate Silver

Before, Times, Ideas

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?
Sebastian Bach

Mean, Tell, Media

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
James Lovelock

Science, Around, Start

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Roger Ebert

Teen, Whole, Violence

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.
Eliot Spitzer

Him, Win, Often

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre

Experience, Through, Lives

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
Jonathan Kozol

Government, Society, Help

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith

Marriage, Political, Politician

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