Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I am not honest.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
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In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.
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You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.
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The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)
