Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Lebedeva snapped her fingers. “It’s like lying!” she exclaimed. “Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.”
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I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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I fuel up every morning, no matter if it's with a shake or a breakfast bar on the go. I eat well, but I have my cheats. I eat cookies, chips, and have a Coke, but only on days that start with S.
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
