Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Loved

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Television
  • Lucky

• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Great
  • American
  • Strength

• I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Truth
  • More
  • Rumors

• Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Educated

• A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Ambiguity

• In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Taken
  • Dance

• The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • Long

• I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • People
  • God
  • Giving

• India has been a cauldron of dreams, ideas and aspirations of the humankind and this is a distinctive character of India, and India in that sense represents the world in miniature. If a system can succeed in India, it will indicate the possibility of such success in the world as a whole.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Dreams
  • Indian
  • Cauldron

• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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