Henry Hopper Quotes

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Accomplish something every day of your life.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Society
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Witch
  • Trials
  • Muslim

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Energy

• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.

  

  Sam Simon
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Words
  • Serious
  • Moral

• I like his heart, his effort, his athletic ability and his activeness.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Heart
  • Ability
  • Active

• I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Prison
  • Killing

• I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

  

  Henry Hopper
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  • Minutes
  • Dialogue