Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
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There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
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A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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I don't feel I'm better than any man out there or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all.
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Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
