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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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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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
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I tried to walk with my head high. It was really hard.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. 'I'm worth it, I'm credible - believe me, give me a shot!' That's the way I feel on a consistent basis.
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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
