Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)
