Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
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Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
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I truly think a long career is to keep the audience guessing and not being able to be boxed, and for me, I'm not hell-bent on playing the lead in things as long its an interesting character with phenomenally talented people, and it's a script that I feel is genuinely innovative, creative, and potentially interesting for an audience.
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Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)
