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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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
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I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.
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We have got to end the Democratic Party. Its history is so interwoven with starting, keeping, trying to push slavery on beyond anything that it should have been through.
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
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Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode – a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
