Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.
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How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
