Marshall McLuhan Quotes
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
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I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'
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As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
