Danah Boyd Quotes

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

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• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• 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.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• 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.'

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Education
  • Health
  • Space

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Space
  • Smart

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Understand
  • Guys
  • Silhouette

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Doing
  • Understand
  • Only

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Character
  • Way
  • Me

• I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Way
  • Baseball

• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • Waiting

• Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Way
  • Body

• The geometry of space changes when things in the universe change their relationships to one another.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Space
  • Universe

• The case for sponsorships in commercial spaceflight is compelling and could dramatically impact the economics of space tourism. Global brands are looking for fresh, new ways to position themselves on the leading edge of their categories.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Space

• I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Running

• The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Style
  • Smoking
  • Thoughtful

• No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Long
  • Moral

• Filming 'Doctor Who' is so incredibly different to 'Spooks.' Near to the surface, there's quite a silly atmosphere. A lot of the times, you're on the verge of giggles because it's so over the top.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Different
  • Atmosphere
  • Surface

• The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

  

  Danah Boyd
  • Way
  • Space
  • Understand