Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)

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• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

  

  Aaron Spelling
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• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
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• People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
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• I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

  

  Aaron Brown
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• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

  

  Yukio Mishima
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• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
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• I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

  

  Jerry Orbach

• And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behaviour whistling in the dark. Well, I guess that when you found yourself in the dark, you might as well whistle. It wasn't always going to be morning , and darkness would come around again. The sun would rise, and then the sun would set. And there you were in the darkness again. If you didn't whistle, the quiet and the dark would swallow you up.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Darkness
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• I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.

  

  Nigel Lawson
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• The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• Long Toss! Far and away themost important drill for strengthening my arm.

  

  Paul Quantrill
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• Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)

  

  Marshall McLuhan