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Hill Harper

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 17, 1966

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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All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

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We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

Hill Harper

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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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 love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

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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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My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

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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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There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter.

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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.

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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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I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

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I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

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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 will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

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Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.

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We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

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Part of the problem in today's world is that many men are taught that they have to 'make it' before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

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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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