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“Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.”

People Want Jobs Certain Poor Results Class Middle Ugly Candidates Middle Class Poor People Demographics

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.”

Way Needs Trying Stories Together Hate Order Force Enjoy I Hate Sells Appropriate Demographics

Author:Emma Thompson

“Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.”

Space Delusion Demographics Susceptible

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.”

Care Race Hollywood Hot Crowds Packages Chicks Demographics Hottest Hot Chick

Author:Gabrielle Union

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.”

People Nice Involved Luxury Programming Get Involved Mandates Demographics Nice People

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.”

Enough Would Be Life Is Wish Confusing Wish You Profile Demographics I Wish You Would

Book:Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

Source: Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”

World Long Play Force Social Powerful Attitude Roles Generations Economic Conditions Behavior Roots Legacy Make Sense Our World Persist Long Life Demographics Outliers Deep Roots

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”

Ifs Want Kind School Law Order Three Television Degrees Suits Drunk Idiot Firm Settling Injury Mail Offering Detectives Demographics Daytime Clinic Cripples Law Firms Bookkeepers

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.”

People Kind Mean I Can Different Age Wanted Artist Song Records Christmas Appeals Flavor Demographics

Author:Chris Brown

“By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It’s the same true story, even when it isn’t.”

Knows World Real Stories Failing Seven Stranger Real World Demographics True Story

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.”

Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files

“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells Song Records Too Much Cutting Figures Likes Teenager Demographics Too Much Work

Author:Jason Aldean

“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”

Giving Hard Members Demographics

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.”

Humans Form Magic Communication Prepared Species Hungry Genocide Acceptable Demographics Sadistic Power Hungry

Author:Kim Harrison

“Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.”

Country Character Clear Changed Mom Monsters Soccer Stations Format Demographics Soccer Mom

Author:Gary Allan

“I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.”

Country Today Stuff Cutting Industry Musical Radio Teeth Genre Demographics Old Stuff

Author:Gary Allan

“If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them of an opportunity, obviously that's going to have an effect...The Republican Party has failed to understand to a significant degree the importance of this issue to our Hispanic voters. I think the trend will continue of lack of support from Hispanic voters and also as you look at the demographics of states like mine, that means we will go from Republican to Democrat over time.”

“We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.”

“There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.”

Enough Faces Growth Powerful Half Economy Four Cutting Educational Debt Inequality Hitting Demographics American Economy

Author:Robert J. Gordon

“Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.”

Men Mean Children Said Age Process Attention Information College Mark Appeals Broads Spiders Deficit Demographics Attention Span Spider Man Short Attention Spans

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.”

Ifs Mean Littles Said Different Able Pride Different Things Demographics

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.”

Years Play Age Groups Males Scripts Driven Demographics

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“It's an under-represented demographic and it's a really loyal fan base and it's really nice to play those roles without making a big deal about it or making too much comment, because the more we normalise it the better. You're not defined by your sexuality but by what you do.”

Play Bigs Deals Roles Too Much Nice Fans Sexuality Defined Comment Loyal Big Deal Really Nice Demographics Loyal Fans

Author:Jaime Murray

“You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.”

Different Film Term Loses Liberty Gains Marketing Tiny Mediums Different Things Demographics Indie Films

Author:Anna Paquin

“If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.”

Ifs Might Energy Marketing Demographics

Author:Callie Khouri

“There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.”

Thinking Trying Sometimes Bears Appeals Demographics

Author:Kevin Costner

“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.”

“Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?”

Knows Country Military Higher Rate Do You Know Demographics Hispanic

Author:Ted Cruz

“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.”

Looks Opportunity Fields Willing Listening Innovation Productive Demographics Dependable

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.”

People Wells Wanted Success Doubt Saws Needed Creating Intuition Plenty No Doubt Demographics Bookshops

Author:Tim Waterstone

“One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .”

“Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem”

Reality Literature Areas West Population Currents Israel East Palestinian Expansion Israeli Jerusalem Demographics

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest.”

Wells Long Suffering Term Economy Economic Worst Late Majors Dues Long Term Cycles Lasting Trends Minors Crash Demographics

Author:Marc Faber

“While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.”

“It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.”

Century Bases Population Jew Medieval Demographics Fusion Hungary

Book:The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology

Source: The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology

“The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.”

Humans Views Progress Development Pressure Traditional Human Life Collapse Technological Sanctity Demographics Under Pressure Sanctity Of Human Life

Author:Peter Singer

“The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.”

Levels Depends Development Members Standards Intellect Productivity Characteristics Consumption Demographics

Author:Robert Trout

“I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.”

Thinking Should Matter Together Social Race Color Demographics Race And Color

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.”

May Light Girl Strong Silence Perspective Female Rational Decline Posters Taliban Demographics Correlation Malala Female Education

Author:Theodore Beale

“Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.”

“Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”

My Own Worry Anxiety Patient Paradox Physicians Juniors Demographics

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.”

Important Projects Sells Demographics Affluent

Author:Brad Gillis

“Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.”

Community Animal South Shelter Urban Demographics

Author:Nathan Winograd

“Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.”

Want War Shows Age Young Grows Wealth Battle Taxes Dollars Investment Old Age Entering Demographics Young And Old

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.”

Heart Children Faces Fans My Heart Adults Smile Teenager Inspirational Love Very Happy Adoration Demographics Smile On My Face

Author:Michael Jackson

“Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.”

Age Games Demographics Playing Games

Author:Jesse Schell

“No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.”

Stills Matter Growing Internet Demographics

Author:Andy Samberg

“Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.”

People Wells Said Feet Happenings Vote Demographics Gnarly

Author:Warren Beatty

“Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.”

Mind Different Social Plans Security Eras Social Security Demographics Different Times Different Eras

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

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