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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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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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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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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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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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
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As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
