Clay Shirky Quotes

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

Clay Shirky

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'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I just love ballads. I am obsessed with them, so I've written a lot of those. They just kind of touch on all the different types of emotions. Though, I think poppy, feel - good songs are underrated and not seen as artistic enough.

Megan Nicole

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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.

Matt Lauer

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We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

Trip Hawkins

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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Roger Waters

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Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

Debra Granik

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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

Chuck Inglish

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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

Armando Iannucci

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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Preston Manning

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I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

Shaun White

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My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.

Nobu Matsuhisa

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