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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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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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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Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.
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There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.
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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
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I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
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I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
