Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

Douglas Rushkoff

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FriendWorldFriendsBackNothing

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

Joan Cusack

WorkLoveLiveHistoryGreatMe

The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

Jerry Lewis

KingMeCrazyComedyPlayWay

No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine.

Melvin Van Peebles

BlackDreamWhiteDifferentMine

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

Trevor Noah

BestMeComedyFriendsWantWill

My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

SuccessScienceSchoolBuildingHigh

Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.

Joshua Henry

LoveFirstFirst LovePickTheater

Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph de Maistre

GovernmentCountryEveryDeserves

The OECD should promote everything that's consistent with its mandate, which is to make the world economy work better.

Jose Angel Gurria

WorkWorldBetterEconomyEverything

We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

Johnny Galecki

GreatChemistryMissingSeenAlong

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Chris Pine

ThinkYouConversationDownLust

There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

LovePeopleBudgetYouFilmmaking

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

Todd English

WhiteSauceSpaghettiFavoriteCoast

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