Gatekeepers Quotes - Page 2

• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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• There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

  Bill Watterson

  Voice, Different, Gone

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

  James H. Billington

  Dream, Special, Legends

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• The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

  Margaret Stohl

  Valuable, Knows

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• Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

  Jessica Valenti

  Home, Men, Helping

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.108, Seal Press

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• Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

  Paul Robeson

  Artist

  "Rose McGowan Opens the Women's Convention with a Powerful Speech" by Claire Valentine, www.papermag.com. October 28, 2017.

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• There are no gatekeepers. So all the things we want people to cast us in, we can just make ourselves.

  Grace Helbig

  People, Want, Casts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.

  Arundhati Roy

  Past, Thinking, Practice

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...

  Robert Mankoff

  Talent, Internet

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Clubs, Infinite

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• It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know anyone else who fits that definition, but I know a lot of really hard fighting progressives in the Democratic party who have stood up time, and time again against special interests, against the powerful on behalf of those who are left behind and left out.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

  Carolyn Keene

  Beautiful, Missing, Bells

  Carolyn Keene (1960). “Nancy Drew 10: Password to Larkspur Lane”, p.102, Penguin

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• We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

  Patrick Collison

  Thinking, Stripes, Peers

  "Stripe Says It's Processing Payments For 'The Interview' In The Name Of Online Freedom" by Jillian D'Onfro, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

  Tony Danza

  Giving, Clients, Publicists

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• Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

  Feist

  Mind, Trying, Littles

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• In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.

  Eli Pariser

  Editors, Together, Flow

  "Beware online 'filter bubbles'". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Pie

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• After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Funny, Humor, Musical

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Math, Destiny, Pedants

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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• Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the plan's layers of regulation and oversight, even seeing a doctor whenever you like will be no easy matter: access to physicians will be carefully regulated by gatekeepers; referrals to specialists will be strongly discouraged; second opinions will be almost unheard of; and the availability of new drugs will be limited.

  William Kristol

  Availability, Doctors, Drug

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• Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

  Cordelia Fine

  Loser, Computer, Unnecessary

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.46, Icon Books Ltd

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• I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room for people who practice critical thinking and question the gatekeepers. They help us see that questioning the gatekeepers is exactly what Jesus was all about.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Grateful

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• I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

  Grace Helbig

  Hate, Creating, Internet

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• Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Book, Library, Digital

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