Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

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• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

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• Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.

  

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• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

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• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

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• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

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• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

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• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

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• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

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• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

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• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

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• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

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• Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

  

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• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

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• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

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• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

  

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• Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

  

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• First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

  

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• With Tommy, gift-giving is an art form. Whatever he bestows on you is more likely than not going to be something absurd and cheap and tacky, but the way he offers it always makes you feel as if you were receiving an oblation. I don’t know how he does it. It’s a bizarre kind of magic; he somehow makes you believe that the useless thing in his outstretched hands is actually a chunk of his heart that he’s torn out, just for you. He holds it up for your inspection, and it glows between his fingers like a candle in a cave. And as if that weren’t enough, he makes it absolutely clear that he doesn’t want anything in return, not even your gratitude, so all you can do is stand there with a stupefied look on your face and humbly accept what he’s vouchsafing you.

  

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• Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. (p. 130)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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