Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
Adam Cohen -
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Kary Mullis -
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
Carlton Cuse -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. Jay Olshansky
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Gabrielle Roy -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay -
There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
Dan Pink -
No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun -
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Harbhajan Singh -
You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
Cameron Diaz
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We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
Barry White -
I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
Olivia Wilde -
You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
Gaby Hoffmann -
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
Samuel Johnson
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
Camille Paglia -
Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. 'Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?'
Maria Bamford -
We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
Bruce Feiler -
Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.
Sandra Cisneros -
A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor? (p.7)
Marshall McLuhan