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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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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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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In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)
