QUOTA of QUOTES
“The most important thing about Trump is that he’s a bully, and if you cower he will take your breakfast money and your lunch money. He’ll take all your money. I’m a fighter, and I’m ready for the fight.”—Neera Tanden, who was recently named president of the Center for American Progress, the Democratic Party’s top think tank, returning to a role she held from 2012 to 2020. (Semafor)
“I’ll smoke a cigarette socially, maybe fifteen days a year. The remaining days, I’m a breathing Mumbaikar. Same taste. Today Mumbai was a Marlboro Light.”— Stand-up comedian and actor Vir Das, joking on Instagram about air pollution in Mumbai
“The focus really needs to be on Donald Trump, what the Trump administration is doing, what Elon Musk is doing.”— Congressman Ami Bera, on why he was among 10 Democrats who joined House Republicans in censuring Democratic Rep. Al Green for heckling President Trump during his address to Congress. (Sacramento Bee)
“We are living in The Truman Show. It’s all alternate reality, all very dystopian. PR has become paid relations, not public relations. You don’t know what is good, what is bad, what is right, what is wrong.”—Hansal Mehta, critically acclaimed Bollywood director, on payments made to critics, social media influencers and others to hype movies. (Al Jazeera)
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Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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