Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
Ma Long -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
Nancy Roman
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman -
All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
Fat Joe -
I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
Fat Joe -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
Imran Amed
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory -
Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
Earl Butz -
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Og Mandino
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My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.
Leona Lewis -
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo -
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists in bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.
Lin Yutang -
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan -
Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
Jenna Wortham -
The comic strip: upholder of Homeric culture. (p.19)
Marshall McLuhan