Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.
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I would not dress Katie Price. Ever. It's important to keep the right look, so it's important to be dressing the right people.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
