Marshall McLuhan Quotes
When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.
Quotes to Explore
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
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I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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Life is a competitive endeavor.
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When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.
