Marshall McLuhan Quotes
War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. (p. 381)
Quotes to Explore
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.
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Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen's books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. (p. 381)
