Bernard Hopkins Quotes
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I always played to win.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.
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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.
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Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
