Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
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Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.
