Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.
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Middle-class drug use isn’t harmless. It fuels the gangs unleashing violence on our streets.
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Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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A story that must be told never forgives silence.
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Typography cracked the voices of silence. (p. 283)
