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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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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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic ballads as well as the fun, up-tempo pop songs.
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I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
