Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin -
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Harold Pinter -
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
Orison Swett Marden -
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
Kapil Sibal -
I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
Caleb Johnson
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides -
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
Raj Kapoor -
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
Illeana Douglas -
You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
Natalie Martinez -
Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
Jaclyn Smith -
I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
Kate Beckinsale
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
Sam Trammell -
When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.
Tavi Gevinson -
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
Parker Palmer -
People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
Felix Baumgartner -
Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
Meg White The White Stripes -
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
Gautama Buddha -
I am not Richard Branson.
Fred Eychaner -
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
James Vincent McMorrow -
Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
Stephen Fry -
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan