Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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Marshall McLuhan

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • Memory
  • Admire

• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • School
  • Hotel

• As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Starting

• I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Business
  • Want
  • You

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Greatest
  • Delight
  • Woods

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Know
  • Me
  • Situation

• When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Different
  • Country
  • Small

• Because we want the same happiness We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts. Forever, forever So I won't forget you I call you over and over again Please don't cry any more I won't leave you alone.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Alone
  • Forever
  • Happiness

• The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • World
  • Hate
  • Desire

• Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World