Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
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The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.
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Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.
