Andrew Keen Quotes

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Said

• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Voice
  • Doing

• Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Life
  • Me

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Control

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Done
  • Environment

• The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray Sharp as golden sands, A bell is clanging, people sway Hanging by their hands.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • People
  • Cold
  • Rain

• Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People

• Whatever kind of movie it is, you're going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or you'll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Drama

• When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People

• I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • God
  • Kids

• Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Time
  • Romantic

• As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Perfect

• The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

  

  Andrew Keen
  • People
  • Relationships
  • Machines