Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (p. 362)
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I like to improvise.
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Pilates is great.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I'm not real. I'm theatre.
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I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.
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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
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Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (p. 362)
