Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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Time itself is the solution to all problems.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.
