Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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What can possibly be the common factor in a Kim Jee-woon film? I think what really ties a lot of my projects together is that there is always a character that believes his life is not exactly the way he wishes it to be. My regard for that character turns out to be a very sympathetic one.
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I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
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Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
