Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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Many of you are well enough off that… the tax cuts may have helped you… We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
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What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.
