Bernard Hopkins Quotes
Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.
Quotes to Explore
-
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
-
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
-
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
-
I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
-
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
-
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
-
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
-
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
-
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
-
My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
-
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
-
The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
-
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
-
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
-
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
-
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
-
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
-
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
-
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
-
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
-
I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.
-
Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.
