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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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
