Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied knowledge. (p. 171)
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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
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When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.
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The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)
