Marshall McLuhan Quotes
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.Marshall McLuhan
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
Maeve Binchy -
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Jack Nicholson -
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Kate Christensen -
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
E. Stanley Jones -
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
Quincy Jones
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
Malin Akerman -
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
Nancy Pelosi -
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Yogi Berra -
Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.
Carly Fiorina -
Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.
Orson Scott Card -
Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.
Ogden Nash
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...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....
Anthony Burgess -
A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.
Lin Yutang -
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson -
I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
Karen Civil -
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
Emily Mortimer -
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Carol Anshaw
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A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.
André Brink -
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Charles Lenox Remond -
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale -
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
Marion Chesney -
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan