Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
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I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.
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My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.
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Is anything worth it?
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I have a pretty good ear.
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I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.
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There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.
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Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
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I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
