Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.
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Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.
