Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I don't like controversy.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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No one person is an island.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
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Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
