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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• 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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• Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

  

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• This satire business, that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. I was certified funny. From then on, I had to be funny - people expected it. Twice the work for the same pay.

  

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• I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'

  

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  

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• I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.

  

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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