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• ‟ If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting and aren't quite so attractive. Try that on for size and see if you can tolerate that.

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• ‟ When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

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• ‟ My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem.

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• ‟ We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

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• ‟ Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need recovering guys in this.' But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there's a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.

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• ‟ The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.

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• ‟ I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

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• ‟ I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.

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• ‟ What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

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• ‟ People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

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• ‟ People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

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• ‟ I rescue people.

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