Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
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I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
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On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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There was no point. It's already done. Let's leave that alone. I mean, if you're not going to come there with something new, then just leave it alone.
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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
