Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p. 114)

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
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• Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
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• I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

  

  Harlan Coben
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• The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

  

  Otto Schily
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• I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

  

  Navid Negahban
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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!

  

  Camila Alves
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• During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.

  

  B. J. Daniels
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• I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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• I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
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• All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
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• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
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• A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
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• My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

  

  Mehmet Oz
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• Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p. 114)

  

  Marshall McLuhan