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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New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
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The regulation picture has gotten a lot clearer in the U.S. and most of Europe. And that's fantastic. I think that's why you're seeing companies like Microsoft and Dell accepting Bitcoins.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
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