Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
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Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.
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My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
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It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.
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Language is a sense, like touch. (p. 271)
