Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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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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I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
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I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.
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I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!
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Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)
