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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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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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 am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.
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I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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So I say live and let live. That's my motto. Live and let live. Anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It's a simple philosophy, but it's always worked in our family.
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I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.
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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.
