Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
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Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
