Carl Hart Quotes
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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I'm not super into sports.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
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Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
