Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
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I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
