Carl Hart Quotes

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Home
  • Become
  • Away

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Man

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • You
  • Moment
  • Actor

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Bad
  • Strong
  • Identity

• I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Important
  • Think

• For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

  

  Polybius
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Discipline

• What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• The president is always made fun of.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Fun

• My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Kids
  • Black