Marshall McLuhan Quotes

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtCultureBeginningThinkEarly

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

Jim Talent

PeopleDecisionsStoneCircleGo

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Jennifer Esposito

FatherMotherYouLessonPuerto Rico

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

Jenna Fischer

LookingYouWantAdolescenceWhole

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

Robert Lepage

PeopleBetterOthersSome People

'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

Ann Leckie

AlonePeopleBookSayStrangeSize

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Michael Schudson

CulturePeopleAdvertisingFindBow

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

Loretta Lynch

HistoryMistakesPastColleaguesUs

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Jean Anouilh

LoveGoodActorNeverGood Actor

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Coretta Scott King

RacismPeopleHumanityDignityGroup

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Brendon Burchard

LifeBestPerspectiveMeMy Life

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Plato

IgnoranceEvilStemRoot

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

Sylvester Stallone

StrengthMenWorldStrongThink

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