Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
