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)Marshall McLuhan
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger -
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.
Taron Egerton -
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.
Nancy O'Dell -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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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.
Salman Rushdie -
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?
Olivia Wilde -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
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.
Jack Cade
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen -
The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus -
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.
Laura Bush -
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
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.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Salman Rushdie
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Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Theresa May -
I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.
Andrew Zimmern -
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
Frank Rich -
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
Abagail Johnson -
I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within public and private space. In terms of here and there, there were some differences, but New York and India were very different when I was growing up in the '80s. Definitely in terms of the visual and popular culture I encountered within my home - that was very different from the complete lack of representation I saw of South Asian culture outside of that space.
Chitra Ganesh -
When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is interiorized. (p. 47)
Marshall McLuhan