Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.Douglas Rushkoff
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
Daniel Cormier -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head -
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars von Trier -
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
Zadie Smith -
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
Imran Amed -
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields -
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan -
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
Sally Kellerman -
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
Patrick White -
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
Haniel Long
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster -
I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
Xavier Dolan -
I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
Taylor Swift -
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly -
My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
Dane Cook -
My life is so full of sacrifices.
Zubin Mehta
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You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.
Drew Seeley -
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.
Lena Headey -
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
Evan Esar -
Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
Ken Ham -
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Douglas Rushkoff