Stephen Hopkins Quotes
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
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I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.
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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
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My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented... she's everything that I want to be.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
