Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made 'bad grammar' possible. (p. 263)Marshall McLuhan
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
Kaley Cuoco -
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
Sacha Guitry -
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Maj Sjowall
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
Adam Peaty -
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
Wallace Shawn -
I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
W. Bruce Cameron -
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas -
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Irving Babbitt -
I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Beck -
We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
Carey Mulligan
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Kurt Vonnegut -
I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
Kathy Ireland -
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan -
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis -
Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made 'bad grammar' possible. (p. 263)
Marshall McLuhan