Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
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I totally want, like, 18 babies.
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If elected, I will win.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised a bit, but I'm lucky that polo isn't as popular as other sports.
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I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
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Which is the funniest language? It's French, isn't it?
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Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?
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All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.
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I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes? (p. 28)
