Marshall McLuhan Quotes
A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism. (p. 144)
Quotes to Explore
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I have selective hearing.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
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He who knows he has enough is rich.
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The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.
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But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism. (p. 144)
