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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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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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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Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I was not the hot, popular girl in school.
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
