Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

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• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Over

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Lost
  • Value
  • Chance

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Not all those who wander are lost.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Lost
  • Wander
  • Those

• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Love
  • Matter

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Lost
  • Loved
  • Lived

• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moment

• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lost
  • Sometimes
  • Media

• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Things

• 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Sense

• If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Song
  • Lost
  • Focus

• I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Important
  • Country

• I love 'Victoria's Secret Sport' because what they do so well is the fit and how it makes you feel. They sculpt all the right parts of your body. Plus, there's so much to choose from - colors, prints, and cool details. It's dangerous - you want everything.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Cool

• We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

  

  S. Parkes
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Lost