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"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
History
"And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934."
Fact
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
Friendship
"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
People
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."
Dream
"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."
People
"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."
Money
"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."
Time
"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."
People
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
People
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."
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"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."
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"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
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"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."
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