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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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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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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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
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The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
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Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.
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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.
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...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
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Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
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When you're questioning your effort, you know you have a lot of work to do.
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
