Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

Bernard Hopkins

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• Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Words
  • Myself

• My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Dad
  • Brilliant
  • Gentle

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Man
  • Practice
  • Intention

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Point
  • Between
  • Technical

• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Change

• If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • People
  • Friends
  • Nature

• I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Face

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• I'm as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Driven
  • Pure
  • Slush

• You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

  

  Moliere
  • Think
  • Pleasure
  • Marry

• The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

  

  John Sarbanes
  • Money
  • Fear

• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Architecture

• Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Party

• Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Waiting

• I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Discipline