Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

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In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Stephen Hough

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It's not exactly calm at Christmas. It's a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert - lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce!

Sophia Di Martino

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I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.

Sriti Jha

MeInterestingWantAnythingOffered

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Ron Kind

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I have Time Warner, and I try to relax a lot and watch television a lot and everything. I really enjoy that. Listen to the radio.

Roky Erickson

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

Michael Spence

WorkQualityPeopleOpportunities

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Johnny Miller

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If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.

Donovan Bailey

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I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

April Pearson

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I never would have thought, when I was 23 and first stepped foot in that ring, that it would give me a platform to use my voice.

Nikki Bella

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