Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
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I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.
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The dyslexic: Everyman as cubist.
