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.
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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.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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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.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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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.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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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.
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No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
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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.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
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After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.
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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
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I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
