Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

Bernard Hopkins

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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Ever
  • Comeback

• I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Almost

• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Art

• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Lost

• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Start

• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Child

• Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Effort

• I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Gears

• On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Direction

• I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Real
  • Home
  • Passion

• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Tragedy
  • Delightful

• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • True
  • Me
  • Single

• I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Know

• I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Change
  • Painting

• But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

  

  John Sayles
  • God
  • Writing

• Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Trying
  • Giving

• I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Architecture

• Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Mind
  • House
  • Body

• I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

  

  Bernard Hopkins