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"I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"

"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
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"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."


"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."


"The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role."


"Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to."


"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."


"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."


"I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?"


"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."
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