Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.
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I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
