Bernard Hopkins Quotes
You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
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That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.
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“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”
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I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.
