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 do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
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I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.
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I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'
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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?'
