Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)
Quotes to Explore
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
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Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perception...When these ratios change, men change.
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The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)
