Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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Men are irrelevant.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.
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Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
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I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
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I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes
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I'm the guy still driving a Nissan.
