Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
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Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
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I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
