"Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things."

-- John Thorn

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“Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.”
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.22, Penguin
“I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.”

Source : "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.
“I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.”
“You push so far past the normal boundaries of whatâ€™s O.K. in society. Iâ€™m always fully aware of, â€˜You canâ€™t do thisâ€™â€¦ When someone really believes in what theyâ€™re saying, but itâ€™s crazy, itâ€™s like my favorite thing on earthâ€¦ [But] Crazyâ€™s just crazy and thereâ€™s nowhere to go. You can have a point of view, it can be very strange, but we have to know your reasoning.”
“I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!”
“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”
“The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.”

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