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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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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The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism. (p. 144)
