Carl Hart Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'
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The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.
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When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
