Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
Quotes to Explore
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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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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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
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The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.
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We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.
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I have a fiercely independent spirit.
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
