Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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