"The New York Times had a headline on its website - Trump Turning To Ultra Wealthy To Steer Economic Policy. This doesn't sound very populist to me. Today's commerce secretary, the names being talked about for treasury secretary, I think there will be populist talk but maybe no populist action."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

E. J. Dionne

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.”
“People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.”

Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.
“You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.”
“God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.”

Source : Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook
“There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Weâ€™re happier when the ***** are villains.”
“Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.”

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