Andrew Keen Quotes
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
Quotes to Explore
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
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I like creating images.
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Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.
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I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.
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The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.
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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.
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Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.
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Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.
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I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.
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You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
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Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
