Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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You give the money where you want it.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
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Something must be done,about vengeance, a badge and a gun.So rip the mic rip the state rip the system,I was born to rage against them.
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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means 'I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve'. It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
