Marshall McLuhan Quotes
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
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In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
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Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. … A brāhmin without this love is no longer a brāhmin. And a pariah with the love of God is no longer a pariah. Through bhakti an untouchable becomes pure and elevated.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of 'corybulous', 'hypogeum', 'plangent', 'irrefragably', 'glozening', 'tellurian', 'conclamant', sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
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Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.
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You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
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It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
