Josh Hopkins (William Joshua Hopkins) Quotes
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
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I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
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I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.
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I just really like it when things are earnest.
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I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.
