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" I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. "

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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. "

Hill Harper

Family

Lifestyle

" We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears. "

" You can't have justice unless you have truth. "

" Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful. "

Hill Harper

Whatever

Beautiful

" Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. "

Hill Harper

President

January

" 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. "

" Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks. "

" People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government. "

" For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur. "

Hill Harper

You

Foundation

" People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. "

" I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. "

" You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? "

Hill Harper

Want

Writing

" I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater. "

" Roles make the actor. "

" We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own. "

" Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact. "

Hill Harper

Impact

Change

" 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. "

" Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle. "

" 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. "

" Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. "

Hill Harper

Prisons

Iron

" My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. "

" You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will. "

" It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters. "

" Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. "

" Most people aren't honest with themselves about money. "

" 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. "

" I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments. "

" Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it. "

Hill Harper

Build

Important

" 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. "

" I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute. "