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

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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. "

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

" You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. "

" Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye. "

" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "

" The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term. "

" 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. "

" When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line. "

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

" Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well. "

" Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism. "

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

" My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track. "

" Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all. "

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

" 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. "

" On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy. "

" I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I? "

" It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots. "

" I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. "

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" I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by. "

" My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream. "

" 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. "