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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And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
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By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.
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Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have a success and do what you say you're going to do in a contract and pay out that money, we had a lot more established actors come to us and say they want to work with us.
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Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
