Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)

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• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

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• Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

  

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• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

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• My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

  

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• Reading is power. Reading is life.

  

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• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

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• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

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• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

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• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

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• I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

  

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• Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

  

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• I am happy in Paris.

  

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• Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

  

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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

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• I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

  

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• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

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• I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'

  

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• I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.

  

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• You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

  

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• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

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• The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

  

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• The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)

  

  Marshall McLuhan