Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.Marshall McLuhan
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms -
I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
Olly Murs -
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
Patricia Millett -
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
Samuel Barnett -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
Frances Conroy -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
Jack Ma -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian -
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
Lajos Kossuth -
I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
Lamar Alexander
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
Edgardo Osorio -
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor -
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
Karl Rove
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I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
Lizzie Andrew Borden -
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Christopher Hampton -
I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
Elisabeth Moss -
I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.
Joe Mansueto -
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
Marshall McLuhan