So, uh, yeah.
So, uh, yeah. I would really like to respect people as individuals, and not collaterally smear them with a wide brush. However, I saw the televised Melania speech and I could not shake a sense that this was her Miss America Platform speech, and not in a sincere way. Like, no wonder she didn't have a career as a spokesmodel. Sincerity does not ooze from her pores. To her credit, she used longer words than her husband generally does.
Plus, something immediately jarred my ear when she threw in that 'dream it, become it' business, but I couldn't place why. It just immediately made me think someone was cut and pasting again. Which, you know, if you credit the source is fine. Ha-ha, yeah. I finally realized that it sounded like one of those motivational posters.
It's been used in variants by the Walt Disney corporation: http://gizmodo.com/8-walt-disney-quotes-that-are-actually-fake-1692355588
And may have originated with some self-help/inspirational gurus:
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill
At least she probably isn't plagiarizing another FLOTUS?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/03/melania-trump-leaves-the-media-scratching-its-head-again/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/03/melania-trump-leaves-the-media-scratching-its-head-again
Plus, something immediately jarred my ear when she threw in that 'dream it, become it' business, but I couldn't place why. It just immediately made me think someone was cut and pasting again. Which, you know, if you credit the source is fine. Ha-ha, yeah. I finally realized that it sounded like one of those motivational posters.
It's been used in variants by the Walt Disney corporation: http://gizmodo.com/8-walt-disney-quotes-that-are-actually-fake-1692355588
And may have originated with some self-help/inspirational gurus:
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Arthur_Ward
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill
At least she probably isn't plagiarizing another FLOTUS?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/03/melania-trump-leaves-the-media-scratching-its-head-again/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/03/melania-trump-leaves-the-media-scratching-its-head-again
At quick glance I thought it was from Rocky Horror Picture Show, and then I parsed the phrasing better.
ReplyDeleteI immediately started singing the Rocky song in my head, too. That would have been too perfect.
ReplyDeleteNow, a group of people in costume and dancing and singing Rocky Horror would be a perfect counterpoint to a Trump rally.
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