Marshall McLuhan Quotes

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fashion
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  • Polo

• What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Strong
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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
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• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
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• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Good
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• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
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• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Children
  • Young

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

  

  Barry Levinson
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• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Right

• As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
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• My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

  

  Fanny Howe
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• I think a few pictures at a time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Think
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• It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • House
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• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Men
  • Water

• There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.

  

  Benjamin Watson

• The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Relationship
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
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  • Big

• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)

  

  Marshall McLuhan