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.

Douglas Rushkoff

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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.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• 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.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Business
  • You
  • Drive

• You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Business
  • America
  • Never

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weep

• Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Door

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Love
  • Age
  • College

• 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.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
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