Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
Quotes to Explore
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
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The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.
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I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
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The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
