Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

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I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

Jim Carrey

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Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

Andy Dunn

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We need to stop arguing about things that don't help Argentina grow.

Mauricio Macri

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WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

Matt Mullenweg

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You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Michael Gerber

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I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

Tracey Emin

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For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.

Mary H.K. Choi

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A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.

Miranda Raison

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Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

Lucy Dacus

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Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Jaron Lanier

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Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.

Colson Whitehead

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I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

Rila Fukushima

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