Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
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We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.
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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
