Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
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To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
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I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.
