Creativity Quote by Sandy Duncan

Duncan’s line has the bluntness of a backstage confession: the “we” isn’t accusatory so much as implicating. She’s not pointing at a few cartoon villains hoarding money; she’s describing a training regimen. “Raised to compete” frames greed less as a personal flaw than as a cultural curriculum, drilled into people early and rewarded relentlessly. The staccato “More! More! More!” does the work a paragraph of sociology could: it mimics the dopamine rhythm of consumer desire, the chant of ads, hustle culture mantras, even the quiet voice that turns contentment into complacency.

The key move is how she collapses aspiration into appetite. Wanting more is usually sold as ambition, self-improvement, maybe even patriotism. Duncan drags it back to its least flattering engine: greed. That word lands hard because it refuses the euphemisms we prefer - “growth,” “drive,” “success.” It also suggests a moral cost, not just an economic one: if “more” is the default setting, then relationships, art, and identity all become competitive arenas, measured in wins, metrics, and market value.

Coming from an entertainer, it reads as industry self-awareness. Performance careers are built on audition culture, rankings, visibility, and constant reinvention. In that world, “more” isn’t a craving; it’s job security. The subtext is exhaustion: a life where being enough is never an option because “enough” doesn’t trend, doesn’t sell, doesn’t scale.