Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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I have always believed in quality work.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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You cannot take all the chances you get.
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Dear reader dearest inscrutable listener inscrutably harking or regrettably more likely not harking except in that chamber in me that posits you with me every moment I’m speaking or trying to speak
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I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
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The great depravity and sinfulness of my heart were set before me, and the gulf of everlasting destruction to which I was verging. I was made to bitterly cry out, "If there is no God — doubtless there is a hell." I found myself in the midst of it.
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It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.
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Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.