"I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Carl Hart

#Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.”
“Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.”
“I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.”
“We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.”
“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.”
“I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.”

Source : Song: Like There Ain't No Yesterday, Album: Strong Enough
“I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)”
“I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.”

Source : "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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