Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)

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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
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The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
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I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
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Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)