Marshall McLuhan Quotes
For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That's why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I'm evangelical.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
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With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
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I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.
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For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That's why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient.
