Ben Hopkins Quotes
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
Quotes to Explore
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
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Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
