Marshall McLuhan Quotes
People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
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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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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I never thought I had a career. I think Meryl Streep has a career. I have jobs that I am lucky to get... I'm one of those actresses who never turns down a part, no matter how small. I don't have the luxury of picking and choosing. I take everything.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
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People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)
