Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  

  Hallie Ephron
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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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• If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
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• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
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• What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
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• People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

  

  Warren Giles
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• It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
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• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

  

  Floyd Abrams
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• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

  

  Peter Carey
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• When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
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• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal when it shall have reduced ultimate laws to one or two, the necessity of which lies outside the sphere of our cognition. These ultimate laws-in the domain of physical science at least-will be the dynamical laws of the relations of matter to number, space, and time. The ultimate data will be number, matter, space, and time themselves. When these relations shall be known, all physical phenomena will be a branch of pure mathematics.

  

  William Mitchinson Hicks
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• Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)

  

  Marshall McLuhan