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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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
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I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.
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It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.
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The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)
