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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• 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.

  

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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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• Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.

  

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• When we did this reboot, I thought 'Ghostbusters' fans would be so excited: 'They've got the new technology - the ghosts are going to look real now.'

  

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• If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.

  

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• The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

  

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• Technology changes rapidly and there's definitely a shift toward connectivity that provides 24-hour access to information aligned with individual needs. That's one of the driving trends and that's going to impact every industry in a very big way.

  

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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