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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Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
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Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.
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We can create opportunities to generate value by working across the entire breadth of Boeing.
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I couldn't be more blessed.
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
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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)