Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
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Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
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Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle.
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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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The keyboard is my journal.
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The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
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I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
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Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
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Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
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But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
