Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Quotes to Explore
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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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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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
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My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
