Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

Douglas Rushkoff

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ChildrenPeopleResearchNewYoung

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Jeffrey Archer

HopeMoving OnMovingPrisonTwo

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

AgeTensionAspirationsBetweenOur

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Stewart Lee

BelieveEvidenceConfirmUseSuppose

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

Ry Cooder

WorkPeopleCrazyCircusRealScore

When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.

Mary Berry

YouWayUpTakePaidBills

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

LifeYouBackNewResourcesStage

Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

Conor McGregor

CarVisionMyselfBestFightDown

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

Arabella Weir

DownHuntingBuyGiftsLikeLocally

I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.

Peter Milligan

LoveGirlLittleHerTooAnarchist

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

Sharad Pawar

WorldFarmerIndiaWhySellShould

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

Mark Kozelek

BlueGuitarBackMoviesIslandMost

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Marshall McLuhan

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