Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
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I believed I was invincible.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
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If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
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To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
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U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
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The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.
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Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
