Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
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The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.
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Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)
