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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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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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
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I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.
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Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.
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Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)
