Nicky Hopkins Quotes
I never did pick up any other instrument. Just other keyboard instruments and that was it.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.
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Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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How you looking like beef jerky, beefing in every verse, But never beefing in person? Randy Savage. You wouldn’t snap a Slim Jim, You wouldn’t rip a wrapping on Christmas in Santa’s attic With the hands of Eddie Scissors…ain’t you average?
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It's all about the experience and having a good time and connecting with the fans.
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Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
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We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
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On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.
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I never did pick up any other instrument. Just other keyboard instruments and that was it.
