Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
Quotes to Explore
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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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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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
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I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.
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And that was only one of the many occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I never hesitate strongly to recommend.
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Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
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Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
