Marshall McLuhan Quotes
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Quotes to Explore
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
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Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.
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Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.
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Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.
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...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....
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A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
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I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
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I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters' and 'Knight Rider' and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in America, I knew more American pop-culture references than my friends did.
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Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most.
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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
