Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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I have a special interest in children who have lost a parent or loved one in the line of duty as they served their country as a police officer, firefighter, federal agent or member of the military, but children all over the word need help and an opportunity to flourish.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
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I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.
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The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.
