Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.
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It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'
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Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.
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You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.
