Bernard Hopkins Quotes
If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People under 75 need more seasoning.
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When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.
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If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.
