Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
Natalie MacMaster -
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
Abigail Washburn -
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill -
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Mackenzie King -
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams -
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
Randy Neugebauer -
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
Harold Bloom -
If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
Orson Scott Card -
I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.
Ralph Hodgson -
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Kate Chopin
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It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!
Amitabh Bachchan -
We do not have to compare our achievements with those of others. We need only to ask ourselves one question: Have I given my best?
Ben Carson -
It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.
Leonard Cohen -
You lie so well I could never even tell what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in cause I’m a Labrador and I run when the gun drops the dove again
Aimee Mann -
The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
Auguste Rodin -
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
Jason Alexander
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Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
Brian Hugh Warner -
Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.
William Goldman -
I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.
Aaron Russo -
The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all levels. (p. 99)
Marshall McLuhan