"Don't pull your love out on me baby."

“What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.”

Source : "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”

“The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them.”

“When I talk to people the usual progression is, "Flogging's cruel and barbaric," moving very quickly to, "Only 10 lashes for five years?" Then I do worry, actually. On the one hand, once you start quibbling about the number of lashes, I've won. But on the other hand, people who say flogging's not cruel enough... I mean, well, what have we become? God forbid I wake up a couple years from now and we have even longer sentences and we flog people. I mean, then I might jump out a window.”

“You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.”

“Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.”

“When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.”

Source : "Sigourney Weaver: No Damsel In Distress". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

“You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.”