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" I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares. "
Hill Harper
Know
Crime
Community
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" I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling. "
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" I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women. "
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" Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision. "
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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. "
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" What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny. "
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" On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps. "
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" The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first. "
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" I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by. "
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" I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children. "
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" You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. "
Hill Harper
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Someone
Know
" Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar. "
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" I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. "
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Muscle
Get
" The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part. "
Hill Harper
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Kindness
Humor
" Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership. "
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World
Men
" Roles make the actor. "
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Roles
Make
" There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter. "
Hill Harper
Love
Crazy
Partnership
" When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move. "
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Wheel
Move
Hands
" 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. "
Hill Harper
Try
Feel
You
" I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree. "
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" The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?' "
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Step
Life
" We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. "
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Come
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" You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. "
Hill Harper
Friendship
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" 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 can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do. "
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" So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love. "
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Father
" There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.' "
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" Voting is an individual, personal thing. "
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" 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
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" I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure. "
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Structure
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" The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life. "
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Life
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Heart