Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
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• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
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• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
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• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
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• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Doubt
  • Become
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• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
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• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Good
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• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
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• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
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• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
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• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
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• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.

  

  Noah Cicero
  • Authority
  • Behavior
  • Hierarchy

• Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • World

• We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state.

  

  Norman Angell
  • Power
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• The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Painting