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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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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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've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.
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I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.
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Golf is such a big commitment, and so is acting. Sometimes you have to give up something to do something else, although, when I'm working on location, I always take my clubs.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)
