Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
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Paik (1969) Versatile Color TV Synthesizer, Manifesto, cited in: Edith Decker-Phillips. Paik Video, Barrytown, Limited, 1998. p. 154
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. pause I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.
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This was our first, recorded in 1979 and released in 1980. Star struck teens at Ringo Starr's home recording studio in the South of England. Motorbikes in the swimming pool, Vodka bottles for daze. The most fun any band ever had doing any record in any studio ... which is why we never listen to it anymore.
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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.
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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.
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In order to get what we've got, Anita, we have, in effect, traded these people out of what was the most important thing on earth to them - the feeling of being needed and useful, the foundation of self-respect.
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The message of radio is one of violent, unified implosion and resonance. (p. 263)
