Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.Douglas Rushkoff
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon -
I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
Valerie Plame -
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
Yvonne Strahovski -
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
Becky G -
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams -
Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
Hansika Motwani -
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
Kate Micucci -
Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
Victoria Osteen -
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
Kacy Catanzaro -
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
Cara Delevingne -
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
Lady Gaga -
It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade
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I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
John Naisbitt -
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke -
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
Douglas Rushkoff