Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I'm tired of proving myself.

Bernard Hopkins

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • School
  • Kids
  • Government

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Want

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Mindset

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spirit

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Always

• Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

• Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

  

  Audrina Patridge
  • Music
  • Fun

• At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Quality

• We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right?

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Women
  • Violence

• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  

  Martin Luther
  • World
  • God
  • Pride

• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Running

• I'm tired of proving myself.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Tired