Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

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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.

  

  Ian Millar
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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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
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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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
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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.

  

  Otto Wallach
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• It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

  

  Kate Moss
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• If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Act
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• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
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• I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.

  

  Kate Williams
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  • Wearing

• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
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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.

  

  Nance O'Neil
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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.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • America
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
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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!

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
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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

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard

• China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

  

  John McCain
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• Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Focus
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• It was always easier to be disgusted after the fact. It was easier to shake your head and be outraged, as if the outrage was proof of civility - a sign that the world hadn't died, that it could still scream out in horror, proof that its heart was still beating.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Horror
  • Beating

• It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

  

  Charlie Rose
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• Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

  

  Marshall McLuhan