Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
Katey Sagal -
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell -
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung -
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama -
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Garrett Hedlund
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey -
Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
Natalie Dormer -
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty -
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
Rachel Johnson -
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
Carine Roitfeld -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
G-Eazy -
Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
Vanessa Marano -
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Sam Shepard -
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson -
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott -
'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.
Markus Persson -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
Vanessa Carlton -
I want the world to be better because I was here.
Will Smith -
One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
Marshall McLuhan