Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980

Topics

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The first two My Morning Jacket records were basically demos.

Jim James

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The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.'

John McEnroe

BestMoneyMeWrongPlayGo

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

Ann Demeulemeester

VoiceInterestingYouThingsLevel

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.

Roberto Azevedo

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Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.

Michio Kaku

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I'm definitely an active champion. I'm looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.

Deontay Wilder

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So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

Debbie Reynolds

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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Branford Marsalis

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Essentially, we're always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you're trying to compute.

Brendan Iribe

ExperienceStartGameTryingYou

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

Bruce McCulloch

SweetThinkWaySavageI ThinkYeah

While we can't begrudge companies for maximizing cost efficiency, we need to empower and properly train our workforce for the skilled jobs demanded in the 21st century.

Anthony Scaramucci

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America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

Winona LaDuke

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