Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
