Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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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 a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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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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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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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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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
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The same technology to stop malicious hosts can also be used to block a server. The Chinese government uses that capability to block servers.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
