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 -
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 -
Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
Malin Akerman
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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 -
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 -
A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.
Lin Yutang -
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
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I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Carol Anshaw -
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.
Christopher Walken -
I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
Jared Padalecki -
I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
Phyllida Lloyd -
I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
Mary Ann Mobley -
So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour
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The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.
Charles Ruff -
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
J. G. Ballard -
The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
Dan Hill -
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan