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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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 bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
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China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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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.
