Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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This is my risk to take.Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed. Technically, you can't live if you get yourself killed.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!
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I looked into his eyes and saw three letters: a 'K', a 'G', and a 'B'.
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Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.
