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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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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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.
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I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.
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I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU.
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Lord of humankind.
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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?'
