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“You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.”

Thinking Knows Stills Real Bigs Reading Voice Believer Digital Pens Mainstream Mixtures Keyboards

Author:Bill Gates

“I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.”

Years Culture Feminism Years Ago Starting Glad Mainstream Mainstream Culture

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?”

Ideas Moving Next Cold Good Ideas Mainstream Predictions Fringe Next Move

Author:Nigel Farage

“Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").”

Facts Produce Theory Pure Economics Mainstream Scholarship

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

Mean Stills Mainstream Outsiders

Author:Matt Drudge

“They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.”

People Ifs Play Feelings Interesting Band Praise Tiny Selling Mask Mainstream Fitting Selling Out Not Fitting

Author:Kyle Baker

“The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.”

Truth Arms Truth Is Rivers Lifetime Arguing Mainstream Splitting Splitting Up

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.”

Ideas Term Mankind Honor Offers Intellectual Valuable Streams Distinction Mainstream Apologizing Status Quo Standing Out Innovators Stagnant Swamps

Author:Ayn Rand

“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.”

People Ifs Choices Economic Ready Prepared Mainstream Good Education Aboriginal Health Services Ready To Leave

Author:Tony Abbott

“I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.”

Want Sides Mainstream Showbiz

Author:Willem Dafoe

“I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.”

Thinking Culture Audience Hypocrisy Contradiction Mainstream Piety Phony Inhumane Mainstream Culture

Author:Paul Krassner

“I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.”

People Ifs World Made Said Real Would Be Courses Grows Fiction Growing Up Backgrounds Mainstream Ged

Author:Jo Walton

“I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.”

People Thinking Knows Ideas Facts Voice Generations Honest Media Checks Mainstream Assertion My Generation Neutrality Voice Of God Mainstream Media

Author:Rachel Maddow

“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

“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.”

Needs Should Doe Social Term Race Rights Security Republican Civil Rights Candidates Mainstream Social Security Civil Rights Act Civil Rights Act Of 1964

Author:Tim Kaine

“What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!”

Knows Way Language Deals Music Materials Jazz Musical Mainstream Swings Jazz Music Repetitive Vernacular

Author:Pete La Roca

“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.”

Thinking Culture Social Gone Forever Institutions Fishes Fishing Mainstream Landing Trout Fly Fishing Angling Bohemian Anti Social Trout Fishing Mainstream Culture

Book:Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

Source: Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

“Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.”

Writing Littles Television Tvs Majors Little Things Mainstream Neglected Satanic Infiltration

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

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

People Kind Comedy Mainstream

Author:Larry David

“My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.”

Sex My Own Marriage Example Gay Mainstream Crusades

Author:Andrew Sullivan

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

Individual Creative Mainstream

Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.”

People Ifs Feels Rewards Being True Mainstream Mainstream Society

Author:Mary Douglas

“I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.”

People Mean Has Beens Situation Position Prison Just One Exposed Mainstream Could Have Been Avoided Pointless

Author:Michael Vick

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

Leader Democratic Democrat Mainstream

Author:Virginia Foxx

“I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.”

Felt Mainstream Outsiders

Author:Nick Lowe

“Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind”

People Years Left Behinds Economy Clear Five Becoming Internet Ten Years Ago Phenomenon Mainstream Left Behind Left Out

Author:Steve Case

“I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.”

Trying Art Film Appreciate Mainstream

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.”

Limits Majority Minorities Mainstream

Author:Rose Bird

“I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.”

Voice Opinion Media Majority Corporate Mainstream Humiliated Mainstream Media Hoaxes Majority Opinion

Author:Joey Skaggs

“The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.”

Shows Nations News Presses Agendas Mainstream Discourse Emergence Talk Shows Public Discourse Ranting And Raving

Author:Carl Bernstein

“For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.”

Thinking Littles Stories Rooms Television Approach Conservative Storytelling Mainstream Cables Nbc

Author:Gabriel Macht

“E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.”

“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”

Thinking Humans Eye Form Culture Opportunity Stage Shame Court Casts Attraction Wit Mechanism Mainstream Ghetto Ingenious Human Form

Author:Ben Katchor

“I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.”

People Courses Language Policy Passionate Mainstream

Author:Frank Luntz

“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.”

Problem Deals Middle East Scripture Contemporary Block Orthodox Mainstream Middle East Entering Modernity Contemporary Society

Author:Arnold Beichman

“One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.”

Inspirational Ideas Moments Motivational Opportunity History Lessons Crisis Mainstream Margins

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“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.”

Source: When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes

“I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.”

Dark Secret Audience Rocks Mainstream

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.”

Ifs Numbers Company Dangerous Industry Smoke Mainstream Documents Secondhand Smoke

Author:Jeffrey Wigand

“The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.”

Jobs Television News Organization Presses Corporate Mainstream Entity Covering

Author:Sydney Schanberg

“Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.”

Heart Jazz Including Mainstream Listen To Your Heart Bebop Cool Jazz

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.”

Humans Mean Children America Silence Rights Media Ignorance Abuse Court Human Rights Refuse Mainstream Scandal Mainstream Media Court System

Author:Garland Waller

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

Can Do Hell Fishes Accomplish Swimming Mainstream

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.”

Feels Stills Stuff Lines Mainstream Outsiders

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”

Years Next Five Ten Essentials Disease Tools Medicine Cease Forty Mainstream Physicians Innovative Specialty

Author:Abram Hoffer

“The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.”

Way Today Tomorrow Mainstream Associates Fringe Lunatic

Author:Jean Louis

“When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.”

“A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.”

Mean Eye Political Party Talking Dying Media Democrat Destroyed Opposition Mainstream Political Parties Mainstream Media

Author:Howard Fineman

“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.”

Doe Facts Today Freedom Media Majors News Machines Independent Presses Propaganda Mainstream Superfluous Freedom Of The Press Free Press News Media Media Today

Author:Chuck Baldwin

“Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.”

Today Used Worthy Fats Used To Be Comment Mainstream Complacent

Author:Marion Nestle

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