Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.
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I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
