"We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of us would've recognized the threat that Trump posed from the beginning, and (B) no one would have been surprised at the bigotry that was in the DNA of his campaign."

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Source : Source: www.mtv.com

Jennifer Pozner

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Dna Quotes

“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”
“I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.”

Source : "New York Film Festival - diary four" by Anne-Katrin Titze, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. October 11, 2012.
“Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.”
“So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.”

Source : "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.
“I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.”
“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.137, Macmillan
“The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Feb 24, 2016

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