Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. (p. 80)
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
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For many people, this would have been a great final. But one of us has to go out early and we'll be doing all we can to make sure it's them.
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Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. (p. 80)
