Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
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Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.