Bernard Hopkins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
-
I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
-
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
-
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
-
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
-
Music is about the performance.
-
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
-
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
-
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
-
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
-
The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
-
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
-
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
-
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
-
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
-
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
-
Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
-
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
-
What did I do to deserve this?
-
Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.
