Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).
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I call my balls the bush twins.
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It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.
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As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.
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In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.
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The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
