Marshall McLuhan Quotes
When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
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People here cannot conceive of worlds where dæmons are a silent voice in the mind and no more. Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
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Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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Generationally, I relate to Basquiat's culture and the essence of his life story.
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When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)
