Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
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Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me."
Bono
Musician, Activist
"The less you know, the more you believe."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!"
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Vanity is my favourite sin."
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"Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy."
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"You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.""
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"My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work."
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"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
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"50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper."
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"My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle ."
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"It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's."
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"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."
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"My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard."
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"The first step toward success will be the biggest one."
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"I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'"
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"Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it."
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"One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'"
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"Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims."
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"Time is the stuff life is made of."
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"I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across."
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"[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover."
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"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
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"Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer."
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"Fans are my favourite thing in the world"
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