Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Money just draws flies.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
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We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.
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The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
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Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
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One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
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Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
