Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
