Austin Kleon Quotes
The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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I don't remember one thing I learned in school.
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People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.
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I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.
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The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
