Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Quotes to Explore
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
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Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.
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I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.
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I don't really prepare for each role the same way.
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I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.
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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
