Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • School
  • Me
  • Dad

• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • You
  • Band

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Family
  • Road

• My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

  

  John Burnside
  • Country
  • Advice

• In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Respect
  • Foresight
  • Firmness

• It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Fun

• I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Road

• Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

  

  Denis Leary
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• I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
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