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'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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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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There are a lot of good actresses out there.
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I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.
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After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
