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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The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.
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The best solutions are not immediate solutions.
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Today's meeting was extremely important and brought exceptional results, ... The talks have shown that the long-term national and geopolitical interests of Russia and India coincide.
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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
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I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
