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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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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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.
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Even though my earlier film 'Idhu Yenna Mayam' didn't do well, I got a lot of good feedback.
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In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
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What the Muslims do to their own children is worse than Hitler.
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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.
