Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I don't like to look typical.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
