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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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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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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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
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A song can be a song where somebody thinks you're crazy. A song that gets released has got to be something that everyone can relate to. Most of the songs that I keep are un-relateable for most people - some of the music I make only for myself and the homies.
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You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?
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I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.
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Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. (p. 171)
