Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

Douglas Rushkoff

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OrganizationBelieveGrowYouBad

My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'

Andrew Sean Greer

TeacherMeWaitLongWriteShe

I'm a former prosecutor. And for me, the integrity of the justice system is all about the fact that these men and women go to work every day to be there for our country.

Amy Klobuchar

WorkWomenIntegrityJusticeDayMe

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

Ana Ivanovic

MeSomeoneDoingYouI CanWant

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

Stephenie Meyer

PeopleMeWritingStoryThinkI Can

I did always say I wanted to infiltrate from within. That was always my reasoning behind going into partnership with a luxury group that uses a lot of leather in their products.

Stella McCartney

LuxuryPartnershipSayGroupWithin

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

Tom Guiry

SonMeGrowMoviesGrow UpUp

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Russell Smith

BookPlaceWayTeenagersOnlyVery

I always find time for my mother.

Luke James

MotherTimeFindAlways

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

LeadershipBusinessDrivingAmerica

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Cher

GirlTimeManWaitWrongShe

If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.

Colin Angle

StartYouCreateSeriousWantBuild

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

Brian Sandoval

BusinessYouTaxKnowTalkPretty

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