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" My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me. "
Hill Harper
Mother
Me
Mentor
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" On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy. "
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" 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. "
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" I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first. "
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" 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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" What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too. "
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Words
" Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful. "
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Beautiful
Follow
" I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. "
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Get
" 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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You
" 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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Healthy
Best
Body
" 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
Time
Kindness
Humor
" 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. "
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Escape
Fear
Me
" 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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Reason
Tell
You
" 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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Family
Women
Children
" We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult. "
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Living
Color
Time
" 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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Me
Step
Life
" 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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Best
Women
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" The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world. "
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Happy
World
Romantic
" 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. "
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Ability
You
Time
" Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. "
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Women
Problem
Men
" Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. "
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OK
President
January
" If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? "
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You
Living
Life
" There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better. "
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You
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" 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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" No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that. "
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Believe
Achieve
Bad
" Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. "
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Us
Prisons
Iron
" 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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Communication
Men
Think
" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "
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Practice
More
Child
" You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. "
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Never
Someone
Know
" 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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Up
Impact
Change