Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Electric technology is directly related to our central nervous systems, so it is ridiculous to talk of 'what the public wants' played over its own nerves. (p. 68)

Marshall McLuhan

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

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• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

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• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

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• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

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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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• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

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• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  

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• There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.

  

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• They hate whom they fear.

  

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• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

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• Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

  

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• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

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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.

  

  Florence King
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• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

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• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

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• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

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• It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

  

  Eric Bristow
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• I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

  

  Arnold Palmer
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• Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.

  

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• Electric technology is directly related to our central nervous systems, so it is ridiculous to talk of 'what the public wants' played over its own nerves. (p. 68)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Technology