Marshall McLuhan Quotes
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
-
Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
-
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
-
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
-
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
-
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
-
I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
-
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
-
I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
-
I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
-
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
-
Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
-
I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
-
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
-
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
-
American myths have never been colorless.
-
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
-
I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.
-
I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
-
I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
-
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
-
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
-
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
-
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
