Danah Boyd Quotes
The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
Quotes to Explore
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
