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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. "
Hill Harper
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" 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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" 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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" 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'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? "
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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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" 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. "
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" We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded. "
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" Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye. "
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" People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. "
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" 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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" 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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" In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. "
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" 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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