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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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
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Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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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.
