I think it would be a bad idea to ignore Google's suggestion. When Google gives specific advice, it is usually best to follow it. In this case, you definitely want to limit the number of links per page. This is to ensure that pages get indexed properly and that internal pagerank is evenly distributed to important pages.
I agree with Django that you should make some of your links nofollow. It is common practice to add nofollow to links to unimportant
seo pages such as privacy policy, terms and conditions, contact page, etc. It might be easier to make all your marquee links nofollow. Limiting the number of links in the marquee is a suitable alternative too.