Bernard Hopkins Quotes
We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
Quotes to Explore
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.
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One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
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We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
