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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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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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.
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Yeah, that's what I was wondering!! Who the fuck is Will Rogers?
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Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
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I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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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.
