Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.
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When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
