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

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• 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

• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• 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

• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Dark
  • Tree
  • Friendship

• a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Thieves

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

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

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • People
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