Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
Raghuram Rajan
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
Carl Hiaasen
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
Adam Grant
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
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'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
Iain Banks
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Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
Walter Scott
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.
Amy Poehler
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
John Stuart Mill
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While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.
Clint Smith
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We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.
Clint Smith
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Color is not so much a visual as a tactile medium.
Marshall McLuhan
