Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
