Marshall McLuhan Quotes
America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.Marshall McLuhan
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
Abbey Clancy -
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe -
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson -
I try to do my best.
Garth Brooks -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay -
I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
Zachary Quinto
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones -
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy -
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall -
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake -
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
Sam Sheppard
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler -
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
Rahul Dravid -
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson -
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy -
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
Banksy -
If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
R. Kelly
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish -
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
Alan Vega -
Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.
Bernice King -
I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.
David Pogue -
I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
Melanie Laurent -
America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.
Marshall McLuhan