Grandmaster Flash Quotes
Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.
Flash, Grandmaster. "My Secret Life: Grandmaster Flash, DJ, 51." The Independent, 18 Apr. 2009.
Xerxes was as the Texans say, “All hat and no cattle.” He had delusions of grandeur and was quite unsuccessful as a conqueror.
Many Muslim extremists see all the Islamic countries as ONE nation, that should dominate and convert the rest of the world.
His mission was to assist the small farmers. However he wrote them off with this flip remark.
The Iranians have longed to be a major world power ever since Alexander the Great conquered Persia. The aspirations of the Theocracy is not new. It was strong with the Shah and almost all Persians for 2 thousand years.
Nantucket was the center of the New England whaling fleet which at the time plied the Earth’s oceans and influenced non Western People the world over. It was a type of cultural imperialism although the whalers sized or claimed anyone’s land or controlled any nation’s trade.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. He was a strong advocate for disarmament and that was being debated at the United Nations. He was critical of Bernard Baruch’s tactics but it soon was clear to almost all that the Russians were not interested in a serious UN supervised disarmament. Oppenheimer was profoundly disappointed when it was clear that disarmament was being blocked by the Russians and their veto. After that he didn’t trust the Russians, and concentrated on trying have US policies that would not goad the Russians into an arms race. This quotation is particularly important because in an effort to discredit his views on nuclear policy some politicians accused him of being a security risk with the innuendo that he was a communist and even a Russian agent.
Joseph Saddler, popularly known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is an American rapper and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be honored. In 2019 he won the Polar Music Prize.
