Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
Quotes to Explore
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.
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I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.
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The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
