Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. (p. 183)
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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Little things please little minds.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.
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Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
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Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.
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I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. (p. 183)
