Carl Hart Quotes

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

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• Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Me
  • Hands
  • Blood

• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Music
  • Want

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Young
  • New York
  • Stage

• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Education
  • Bible
  • I Can

• I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Good
  • Music
  • Boy

• The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Great
  • Firsts

• We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Society

• I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

  

  John Keegan

• Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Poor

• Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

  

  Carl Hart