Marshall McLuhan Quotes
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
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I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
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I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.
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I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
