Marshall McLuhan Quotes
We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
Quotes to Explore
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,' it was a great opportunity to be a part of a really funny cutting-edge show on television. I really got into the character, and I was able to do some improvisation, which allowed me to mix in part of my personality into the script.
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I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
