Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.
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To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
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I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
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If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.
