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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nature Communication Men Media More

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Alone Science Fast Go Accept Old

If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.

Fear Relationship Money Fun Enjoy

I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.

Cool Hair Victory Enough Body Tease

I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Hotel Airport Eat Bangkok Between

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

Mother Daughter Think Early She Had

Movies are an editor's medium.

Movies Editor Medium

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

Speak Think Shame Ashamed Us Let Us

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Picture Worth Person Twice Painter

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.

Literature More Right Social Ancient

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

Son Time Me Being Been Shaped

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

Women Best Men Woman Frustration

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Life Charity Holidays Giving Early

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