Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size. (p. 6)

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

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• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

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• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

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• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

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• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

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• I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

  

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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

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• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

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• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

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• Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.

  

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• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  

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• My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

  

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• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

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• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

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• Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

  

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• I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

  

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• People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

  

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• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  

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• Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

  

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• I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

  

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  

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• Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus – the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size. (p. 6)

  

  Marshall McLuhan