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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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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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
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What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.
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The destruction depicted in them was mostly caused by unknowable or unseeable things. You don’t see the actual executioner; like shelling from artilleries 100 miles away. The destruction of the earth by oil rigs and refineries. And the poisoning of the waters. So you don’t see the direct result of the event but the fall out from the carrying of the wind.
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
