Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
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My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
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How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.
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such mad confidence within despair.
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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
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I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.
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And to me, it's a very anti-human way to go about this. And what I mean about anti-human is even if the population is increasing, so what? So what? People aren’t bad. When did humans become a bad thing? Why is it that we have to, you know, stop people from getting pregnant?
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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
