Marshall McLuhan Quotes

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

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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.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• 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!

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Acting
  • Just
  • Wardrobe

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• 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.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Mother

• I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Funny

• I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Play

• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Humility
  • Heat

• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Write
  • Silly

• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Artist
  • Body
  • Yourself

• Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Crazy
  • Trump

• My parents approached me to go to rehab... So I ran away. I just took off running. I went to a friend's house and I went pretty buck wild. I was snorting Demerol, OxyContin. I don't really remember much.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • House

• Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Life
  • Character
  • American

• I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Humans
  • Wonderful
  • Found

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • Help
  • Caring

• I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

  

  David Archuleta
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  

  Marshall McLuhan