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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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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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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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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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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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it's supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They're really rooted in something.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
