Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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By denying any ultimate standard outside of self, one can escape all self-blame and go through life on a perpetual mission of face saving.
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I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
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I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.
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Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
