Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.
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I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
