Ben Hopkins Quotes
Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I don't drink coffee.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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The most important lens you have is your legs
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are.
