Bernard Hopkins Quotes
There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.
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My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
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There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
