Aloe Blacc Quotes
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.
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I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.
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The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.
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For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.
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We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.