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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
  • The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. -- David Byrne
  • But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. -- Eric Alterman
  • The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. -- Tom Hooper
  • 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
  • The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of. -- Justin Halpern
  • One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept. -- Ray William Johnson
  • These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be. -- Vivian Campbell
  • The gatekeepers must change. -- Prince
  • Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. -- Paul Robeson
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  • I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men. -- Jim Lehrer
  • The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club. -- Benjamin Hoff
  • The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? -- Nicky Gumbel
  • A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself. -- Robert Mankoff
  • The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients. -- Tony Danza
  • I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. -- Rob Lowe
  • We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship. -- David A. R. White
  • Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper. -- Erika Slezak
  • I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move. -- Beeban Kidron
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. -- Rick Perlstein
  • We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country. -- Edward James Olmos
  • The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own. -- Adam Mansbach
  • Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young. -- Andrew Nikiforuk
  • 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
  • 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
  • Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world. -- David Krieger
  • 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
  • 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
  • I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about. -- Felicia Day
  • The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was 'Waltz With Bashir,' or 'The Gatekeepers,' or '5 Broken Cameras.' -- Alex Gibney
  • Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations; they are gatekeepers. -- Bryant McGill
  • Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience. -- Harry Belafonte
  • We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex. -- Peggy Orenstein
  • There are no gatekeepers. So all the things we want people to cast us in, we can just make ourselves. -- Grace Helbig
  • It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy. -- John Lurie
  • 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
  • The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that. -- Ava DuVernay
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