Marshall McLuhan Quotes
African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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I was in love when I was in college; we all were. I remember how beautiful everybody was. Even the plain people looked beautiful.
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The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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Therefore to this dog will I,Tenderly not scornfully,Render praise and favor:With my hand upon his head,Is my benediction saidTherefore and for ever.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.
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Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.
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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.
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There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
