Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
