Marshall McLuhan Quotes
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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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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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.
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Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, 'no epoch was more naturally mad.'
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Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.
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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
