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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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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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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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
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The power play is based on results and not how many chances you get. We missed a chance to get points last night, so it magnified the importance of this game.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
