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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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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Creating stars in laboratories on the very planets you inhabit turns out to be a bad idea.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
