Marshall McLuhan Quotes
PLAYBOY: A Columbia coed was recently quoted in Newsweek as equating you and LSD. 'LSD doesn’t mean anything until you consume it,' she said. 'Likewise McLuhan.' Do you see any similarities?
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
Barbara Hepworth
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
Olivia Munn
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Malcolm Wilson
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
Abigail Breslin
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Walter Lippmann
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
Garrett Dillahunt
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
Larry the Cable Guy
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He never funked and he never liedI reckon he never knowed how.
John Hay
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Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.
Joseph Brodsky
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When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.
Jerry Lewis
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'I’ve thrown myself on your mercy, told you that without your help I’m utterly lost.What else is there?' She suddenly moved close to him on the settee and cried angrily: 'Can I buy you with my body?'
Dashiell Hammett
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Robert Frost
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PLAYBOY: A Columbia coed was recently quoted in Newsweek as equating you and LSD. 'LSD doesn’t mean anything until you consume it,' she said. 'Likewise McLuhan.' Do you see any similarities?
Marshall McLuhan