Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
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There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
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I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
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If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
