Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)

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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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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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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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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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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
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Young people are at a higher risk of homelessness than adults and, when they find themselves in crisis, are too often overlooked by hard-pressed council homelessness departments.
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I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
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Watch 'Fear the Walking Dead,' because we'd love your support, but I think 'The 100' is such a great show; it was a great show before I got there. It's only getting better, and I'm so lucky I got to be a part of it.
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Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
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Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)