Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
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I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name.
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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
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Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. It is the law and no statute can alter it. If we do not follow the law, and let the law die with the teacher, we shall become accomplices to the murderer. But if follow the law with our hearts, Bapu will live with us and through us.
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The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
