Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
