Ben Hopkins Quotes

For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It's not an outsider narrative, and it's not a fetish narrative; it's just my story, and it's worth being told and listened to.'

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Justice
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fan
  • Supportive

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • Wife

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Being Married

• One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Great
  • Wall

• As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • People
  • Nasty

• That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It's not an outsider narrative, and it's not a fetish narrative; it's just my story, and it's worth being told and listened to.'

  

  Ben Hopkins
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