Bernard Hopkins Quotes
It's two sides to everybody. I'm a manager - I'm a promoter - and I'm a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That's a balance there.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!
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Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.
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The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.
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In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.
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the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
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It's two sides to everybody. I'm a manager - I'm a promoter - and I'm a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That's a balance there.
