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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature. This is called the problem of quantum gravity.
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I declare that henceforth capital and labor shall have equal rights and duties as brothers in the fascist family.
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Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
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My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
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Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.
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Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
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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.
