Mainstream Quotes · Page 11

When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking…

— Shaggy

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

— Walter Scott

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's…

— Ruth Ozeki

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.

— Kirk Cameron

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

— Scott Adsit

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its…

— Iqbal Sacranie

It's a long process transitioning from indie to mainstream, and it's not that easy because it's a different environment when you are…

— Coco Martin

Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed…

— Washed Out

“Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the…

— M.B. Dallocchio

People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable…

— Lenny Abrahamson

For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all…

— Gabriel Macht

In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may…

— Mike Royko

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad…

— Janeane Garofalo

I started out mainstream and then literally made a conscious decision, like, 'I don't have that core black audience on my side.'…

— Romany Malco

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite…

— Fred Barnes

How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other…

— Kelela

The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first…

— Oliver D. Crisp

If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters…

— Richard Rohr

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not…

— Philip K. Dick

My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power…

— Bakari Kitwana

I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas…

— David Adjaye

Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were…

— Naomi Klein

Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no…

— Simon Kapwepwe

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

— Ryan Reynolds

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

I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color.

— Lynn Nottage

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may…

— Chris Hardwick

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Eric Liu

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at…

— Henry Rollins

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it…

— Catherine Opie

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

— Kevin Smith

“Reactionary 'sheeple' are often more attractive than, ego-driven, nihilistic, phoney,love-fearing,master-race-belief-system-victim-collectors. Fine lines there”

— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

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

— Dolly Parton

“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud…

— Hal Duncan

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream…

— Steve Coogan

I don't have any problem with drag being more mainstream... I enjoy the fact that we're moving toward a place where people…

— Shangela

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that…

— Dan Kaminsky

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to…

— Joe R. Lansdale