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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.


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I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.
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No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
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