Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
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I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.
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It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.
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Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.
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All words, in every language, are metaphors.
