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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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  

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• When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

  

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• We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

  

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• 'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

  

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• For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

  

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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