Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)

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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.
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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)