Marshall McLuhan Quotes
People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
Quotes to Explore
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Vegas is a celebration.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.
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People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
