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“What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.” quote by Seth Godin — Download Open image

“What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.”

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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

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I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should…

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

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I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy…

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There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to…

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Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure…

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just…

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