Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change.
Marshall McLuhan
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
Said Musa
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Walter Salles
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
Galway Kinnell
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
Urjit Patel
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
Karen Salmansohn
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins
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For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
Avi Arad
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
George Bernard Shaw
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Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.
Jerry Costello
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
Matt de la Pena
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Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change.
Marshall McLuhan