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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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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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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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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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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Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
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As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
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To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'
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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
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I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
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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)