Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.
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The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
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The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)
