Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
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We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. (xx)
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
