"I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty."

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Source : "Interview with Paul Bremer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. September 24, 2003.

Paul Bremer

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“The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?”
“All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.”
“I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.”
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
“Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion.”
“That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.”

Source : "Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series 'The Get Down'". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. July 2016.

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