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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I didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.
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What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
