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.'

  

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

  

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

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
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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.

  

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

  

  Ralph Merkle
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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.

  

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

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
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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.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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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.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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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!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
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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.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
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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.

  

  Ram Charan
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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.

  

  B. J. Novak
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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.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Mandy Moore
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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.

  

  Sam Phillips
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• I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

  

  James McAvoy
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• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  

  Dolly Parton
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• It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

  

  Errol Flynn
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• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Music
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• I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
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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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