Mainstream Quotes

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

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

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

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.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

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.

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

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

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

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.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

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

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.