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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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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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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When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
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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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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
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There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.
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Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)
