Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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All my songs are where I am.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
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The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority.
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A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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When they say you can't, show them you can.
