Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.
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Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
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Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.
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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
