Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

Douglas Rushkoff

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WorkHistoryEnvironmentalDrive

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

Jerry Doyle

LifeFunHaving FunCareShortYou

Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.

Maz Jobrani

PizzaMallWorkingKidsYourWere

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'

Maya Angelou

CourageYourselfStand UpStandYou

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

AgeGeniusClassRealBeenBooks

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

Andy Taylor

YouGoKnowDrinkDaysEnglish

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Michael Bennet

HomeBestSchoolPotentialShort

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

John Woolman

AgeRespectManCareYearNoble

Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.

Tori Kelly

NobodyWhyJustWhoLikeEven

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

WinterMyselfSleepTiredPeople

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

Michael Leunig

MemorableNoseLikeRipeShouldBit

I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do.

Mitt Romney

HappyBe HappyCountryWayAlways

So, I'm on the satellite every Sunday, no matter where we are, with the Rams. Turn on the satellite; got to watch the Rams.

Don Rickles

SundayMatterTurnWatchWhereGot

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