Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.
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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
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I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.
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Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
