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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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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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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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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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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To be a billionaire, you have got to get lucky.
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One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?
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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
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To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
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The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
