Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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I like to travel by myself.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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Am I not with hosts making a din? I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore. Am I not he that is called Gorlassar? My belt was a rainbow to my foe.
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair;And they heard the words it said,-'Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!'
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What, like with a cloth or something?
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The thing that has always disturbed me about
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.
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My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
