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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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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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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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
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I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
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The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)
