"That`s an astonishment that we`re waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy."

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Source : Source: www.msnbc.com

Michelle Goldberg

#Waiting Quotes #Astonishment Quotes #Trump Quotes

“Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.”
“There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.”
“Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.”
“The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers
“I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.”
“War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.”
“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.91, Univ of California Press
“After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.”

Source : Shauna Singh Baldwin (2011). “The Tiger Claw”, p.309, Vintage Canada

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