Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
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It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.
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You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
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The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
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Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)
