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" Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. "
Hill Harper
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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. "
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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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" With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me. "
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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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" 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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" If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater. "
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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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" 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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" I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling. "
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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. "
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" When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing. "
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" You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. "
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" 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. "
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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 getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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