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By Agence France-Presse
PARIS: Some of the best quotes of the past week
from around the world:
Obama’s victory
“America, this is our moment. This is our
time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past.”
— Barack Obama minutes after becoming the
first black to become the presidential nominee of a major US party
Obama’s a hero
“Barack Obama, for all of us that have dreams
and hope, is a hero.”
— George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and
Indiana Jones, on his real-life hero
End of a fashion era
“Because when I said to him ‘Yves, they
won’t give me a French Vogue cover, they won’t put a black girl
on the cover’ and he was like ‘I’ll take care of that,’ and
he did.”
— Naomi Campbell in a tribute on British
television after the death of fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, a
major promoter of the breakthrough by black supermodels
Europe’s new Cold War
“Enlarging NATO simply erects new frontiers
in Europe, new Berlin Walls”
— Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in an
interview with Le Monde newspaper during a trip to Paris
Trust
“In some countries, when you see a soldier
you feel safe. Here when you see them you feel scared”
— Ibrahim Diallo, a shopkeeper’s leader in
the main market of the Guinean capital, Conakry
On a high
“We are relieved to have recovered the
drug”
— A Tokyo customs service spokesman after 142
grams of cannabis was put in a passenger suitcase as a test for a
sniffer dog, which then failed to find the drug. Calling passengers
one by one, officials finally found the suitcase.
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