Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. (p. 309)
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.
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I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. (p. 309)
