Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
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Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
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The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
