Marshall McLuhan Quotes
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
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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 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 have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
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I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem to think they should nudge me or bump into me as they go past. It was this incredible performance that used to amuse me. In the early days, people were drawn towards us like they'd be drawn towards a car smash...There is a definite relationship between that fanaticism and the fan that, as a performer, you expose more of yourself, of the undercurrents of your personality. Most rock personalities subdue that or choose not to explore it.
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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
