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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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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The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.
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I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.
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Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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Language is a form of organized stutter.
