Carl Hart Quotes
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
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From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
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I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.
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You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
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My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
