Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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My work... is my legacy.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
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You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas-better to write down what refutes and weakens them!
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My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
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The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.
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A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.
