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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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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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 certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
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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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I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes.
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I didn't worry too much about staying in shape once I'd stopped dancing. You get to the point where you just burn out and have to give your body a chance to heal.
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I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.
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In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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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.
