Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The mosaic form of the TV image demands participation and involvement in depth, of the whole being, as does the sense of touch. (p. 334)
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.
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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
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Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
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To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The mosaic form of the TV image demands participation and involvement in depth, of the whole being, as does the sense of touch. (p. 334)
