Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.
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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
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I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
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It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
