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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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?
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Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
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It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
