Aloe Blacc Quotes
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
