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" At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance. "
Hill Harper
Day
Sleep
Comfort
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" People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government. "
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" Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life. "
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Today
" Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact. "
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Impact
Change
" Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. "
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" Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter. "
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Love
Same
" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "
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Money
Job
Education
" People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. "
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People
Always
Relate
" I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with. "
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You
Change
" We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. "
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Those
Come
Certain
" Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing. "
Hill Harper
Think
Celebrate
Opportunity
" Roles make the actor. "
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Actor
Roles
Make
" My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me. "
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Me
Vacation
Feel
" Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism. "
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Difficult
You
Things
" All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. "
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Forensic
Make
Work
" People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. "
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Challenge
Think
Prison
" Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real. "
Hill Harper
Escape
Fear
Me
" On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy. "
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Audience
Good Guy
Good
" My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. "
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Entrepreneur
Actor
Career
" If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department. "
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Company
Say
Start
" My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians. "
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Physicians
Parents
Both
" I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute. "
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Want
Person
Right Person
" There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there. "
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Rich
Wealth
You
" My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me. "
Hill Harper
Mother
Me
Mentor
" My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. "
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Father
Grandfather
Brother
" Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own. "
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Try
Feel
You
" I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. "
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Comedy
Muscle
Get
" I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. "
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Women
Books
Number
" The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. "
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Real
Want
Problem
" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "
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Practice
More
Child
" Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' "
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Youth
Mirror
Myself