Bernard Hopkins Quotes
I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I want to have a long career.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.
