Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland -
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
Hallie Ephron -
Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
Adam McKay -
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
Felicity Kendal -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
Tamsin Greig -
I really love learning and working long hours.
Doona Bae -
What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Warren Giles
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch -
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams -
You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
Dakota Blue Richards -
Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
Kabir Bedi -
Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
Nancy Kress -
When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.
Rachel Maddow
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
William Gibson -
Tesla is certainly opening up very, very new ground but Tesla, as we all know, is not exactly the peoples' vehicle.
Christiana Figueres -
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
Barbara Mandrell -
The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.
Annie Wersching -
I didn't think it would be this big. It must have been a slow news day.
Larry Miller -
Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)
Marshall McLuhan