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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• 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.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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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.'

  

  Taran Killam
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• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
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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.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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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.

  

  Harold Bloom
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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.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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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.

  

  Kacy Hill
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• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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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.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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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.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

  Washington Irving
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• Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and part of the job to go, 'Alright, let's talk about it!'

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
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• The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

  

  Gautama Buddha
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• And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
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• Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.

  

  Ally Carter
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• Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. (p. 280)

  

  Marshall McLuhan