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.
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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.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I was born with an evil face.
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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.
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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.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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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.
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I think a few pictures at a time.
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
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Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
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People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm: all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others...
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I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.
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Of Coleridge His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
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It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time.
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I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)
