Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
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Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
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Sometimes you tell the day
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The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
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We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.
