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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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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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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Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
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A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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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.
