Anthony Hopkins Quotes
I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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My health is fine.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Films come and go. Families stay.
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I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.
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I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
