Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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I like to travel by myself.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Am I not with hosts making a din? I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore. Am I not he that is called Gorlassar? My belt was a rainbow to my foe.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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I always wanted to make movies.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.
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I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
