"What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming."

-- Rodney Clapp

#Worry Quotes #People Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.”
“I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.”
“I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.”
“I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.”
“It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.”
“Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.”
“I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.”
“On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.”

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