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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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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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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A too closely watched flower blossoms the wrong color. Excess attention to the jonquil turns it gentian. Flowers need it tranquil to get their hues right. Some only open at midnight.
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Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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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)
