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I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

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.

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

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.

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

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

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.

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

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

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

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

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

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

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

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.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

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?

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

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

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

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.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

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?

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

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

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

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

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

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

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.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

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

I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.

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

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.

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

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

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

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.