Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress. (p. 54)
Marshall McLuhan
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
Imran Amed
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
Nate Berkus
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart
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I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
Vanessa Hudgens
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
Laura Dern
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
Doug Jones
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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
Eloisa James
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The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.
Carol Bly
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I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.
Robert Zemeckis
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Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress. (p. 54)
Marshall McLuhan
