Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I know what poverty is.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
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I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.
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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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I think you have to remember that the people that are really muscly and toned at the gym started somewhere. You have to remember that they didn't always look like that, so when you're in there, don't look at them and feel intimidated.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)
