Bernard Hopkins quote: "Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40яПН years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again."

I felt a sense of urgency, ... I wasn't sure if I was winning or not.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Everything rides on Dec. 3. This fight is important because that's where Bernard Hopkins will show t...
BERNARD HOPKINS

That's the only thing that I say to myself that I need to work on.
BERNARD HOPKINS

I got my butt kicked.
BERNARD HOPKINS

I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the cre...
BERNARD HOPKINS

Come Sunday morning, somebody's going to be asked questions (like) 'What happened?' ... And guess wh...
BERNARD HOPKINS

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better ...
BERNARD HOPKINS

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
BERNARD HOPKINS

This is my last fight of meaningful significance, ... This is my last fight, outside and in the ring...
BERNARD HOPKINS

I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, ......
BERNARD HOPKINS

I didn't expect right after July 16th to be more in demand and more respected everywhere I went, fro...
BERNARD HOPKINS

He came to fight, ... He didn't come to run or look for a gift from the judges.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better ...
BERNARD HOPKINS

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!
JOSH HOPKINS

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so muchтІ I have no answers anymoreтІonly the life I have livedтІ The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so muchтІ I have no answers anymoreтІ only the life I have livedтІ The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Innocence eroded into nightmare.
All because of very bad touch.
Love, corrupted.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Today, you have 100% of your life left.
TOM HOPKINS

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness...
MARK HOPKINS

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material ...
TOM HOPKINS

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any sh...
MARK HOPKINS

The right name is an advertisement in itself.
CLAUDE HOPKINS

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflic...
TOM HOPKINS

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced b...
MARK HOPKINS

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
TOM HOPKINS

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
TOM HOPKINS

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number ...
TOM HOPKINS

You begin by always expecting good things to happen
TOM HOPKINS

Do what you fear most and you control fear.
TOM HOPKINS

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
TOM HOPKINS

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material ...
TOM HOPKINS

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible...
MARK HOPKINS

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number ...
TOM HOPKINS

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-st...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I'...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunr...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That&...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain no...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I love life because what more is there?
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend i...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fi...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, wh...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all th...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hu...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, b...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am,...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. ...
BEN HOPKINS

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
TOM HOPKINS

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son...
BEN HOPKINS

HOW

do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
ELLEN HOPKINS

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass a...
BEN HOPKINS

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouragin...
TOM HOPKINS

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think....
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car wit...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
GARY HOPKINS

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Pretty

That's what I am, I guess.
I mean, people have been telling
me that's wh...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside s...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also...
ELLEN HOPKINS

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

But Hey, Guess What
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go...
ELLEN HOPKINS

No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS

It was the exact opposite
for me. At first all I
wanted was sex with her,
but soon I ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some...
ELLEN HOPKINS

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit...
ELLEN HOPKINS

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Standing Here

My entire world far beneath
my feet, I should be filled
wit...
ELLEN HOPKINS

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

....a perfect paper airplane.
ELLEN HOPKINS

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a ti...
ELLEN HOPKINS

TRIAD:
Three
separate highways
intersect at a place
no reasonable person
ELLEN HOPKINS

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I mean, if you're gonna
purposely lose your mind,
you want to get it back some
day....
ELLEN HOPKINS

Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
ELLEN HOPKINS

I'd sleep outside naked in the blizzard,for you.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bitterswee...
ELLEN HOPKINS

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.
ELLEN HOPKINS

You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, t...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness...
ELLEN HOPKINS

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,<...
ELLEN HOPKINS

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of pai...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound.
Yearn to close ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they mi...
ELLEN HOPKINS

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Or might the soul clone itself,
create a perfect imitation
of something yet to be
def...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Raeanne
Mirror, Mirror

When I look into a
mirror,
it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS

The best thing a coupon does is that it helps track who's been to the Internet. A lot of customers w...
BRYAN HOPKINS

Now, instead of strongest newspaper ad, you have to have the strongest Internet presentation.
BRYAN HOPKINS

Houston's a great team, and we haven't played well on the road. We just have to put this loss behind...
BRYAN HOPKINS

When the customer arrives for their test drive, they will have a reserved Internet parking spot and ...
BRYAN HOPKINS

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right t...
BRYAN HOPKINS

We weren't making shots; that was the biggest thing. I had a few shots I should have made.
BRYAN HOPKINS

The team you will start seeing is the one that was competitive against Oklahoma and the one that bea...
BRYAN HOPKINS

It was a big-time game, and I felt like I had to step up. Early in the year, the big men inside were...
BRYAN HOPKINS

It's a must-win game. We can't afford to be 0-3. That's a hole we'd rather not be in.
BRYAN HOPKINS

It seems to be the story of the season.
BRYAN HOPKINS

He was arrested on assault and battery charges under the domestic abuse statute. He was taken to the...
BOB HOPKINS

Justin was really committed to acting. He was always in shows and hardly ever went out on weekends b...
BOB HOPKINS

We do it as a courtesy to the coaching staff,
BOB HOPKINS

Old people and young people love cars and everyone remembers their first car and this church is tryi...
BOB HOPKINS

We don't usually see this sort of strong storm in August. We're definitely in the fall (weather) pat...
BOB HOPKINS

It's huge. It's just a classical storm. It's gorgeous, from a weather person's point of view.
BOB HOPKINS

At this point, we do not know if J&J is simply trying to force Boston Scientific to go higher, or if...
BOB HOPKINS

I knew he'd make it because he was so committed and dedicated to his craft. He knew what he wanted a...
BOB HOPKINS

J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
BOB HOPKINS

Apparently the Army recognized my father's intellect and decided it would be a waste to make him a g...
BILL HOPKINS

Keep in mind it is your most important marketing tool, ... People will spend $200 on a 3-by-3 inch a...
BILL HOPKINS

I tell my customers: Don't let them sit in a box. Please, use them!
BILL HOPKINS

He was in pretty good health until about four months ago when the cancer came back.
BILL HOPKINS

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with managem...
BILL HOPKINS

Stay away from trite ones like, 'Where the customer is always king,' because it really means nothing...
BILL HOPKINS

Good gracious, it made a big splash in the papers, ... It was quite uplifting for the whole valley.
BILL HOPKINS

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,
BRAD HOPKINS

Absolutely everyone can improve, and the veterans especially, in setting that kind of precedent that...
BRAD HOPKINS

It was a team protection. We did a good job as far as what could have happened. We've seen him again...
BRAD HOPKINS

They walk down that wall down there that has all the Super Bowl memorabilia on it and they have no i...
BRAD HOPKINS

This is a great time for the bye week. It will be good for people's bodies to heal and to get a litt...
BRAD HOPKINS

All I know is that to be able to go out and kick the ball so far with such little feet is amazing. I...
BRAD HOPKINS

That security didn't respond before Antonio Davis responded? I mean this guy was playing a game. His...
BRAD HOPKINS

This by no means clears the slate. We're 1-1. We wanted to be 2-0. We have a lot of improving to do....
BRAD HOPKINS

It's almost habitual. When the guys are watching other players who have been there, you kind of pick...
BRAD HOPKINS

He doesn't just spin, he spins with velocity. Dude can snap ankles.
BRAD HOPKINS

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Without Warning:
Sometimes your traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and i...
JOSH HOPKINS

Have you ever
had so much to say
that your mouth closed up tight
struggling to harnes...
ELLEN HOPKINS

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scien...
TOM HOPKINS

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - o...
BEN HOPKINS

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends...
MARK HOPKINS

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you are in confli...
TOM HOPKINS

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.
ELLEN HOPKINS

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to s...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Doing your best means never stop trying.
TOM HOPKINS

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest
GARY HOPKINS

It's a death-knell for the toll road as it is envisioned now.
DAN HOPKINS

For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's ...
BEN HOPKINS

While the engine burn abort was unfortunate, we still expect to accomplish the rendezvous objectives...
JOHNS HOPKINS

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flower...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am
TOM HOPKINS

The numbers don't vary that much.
DAVID HOPKINS

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You...
GARY HOPKINS

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
TOM HOPKINS

Transportation was one of the areas that suffered significant cuts during the recession. This additi...
DAN HOPKINS

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a pr...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Brana...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

This can be a very long process.
TOM HOPKINS

They were running as low as $99 a night and up to, well we saw a Comfort Inn for $300 a night, which...
CHRIS HOPKINS

She's been a good ally for Colorado.
DAN HOPKINS

Making the attempt is what matters most.
GARY HOPKINS

We truly feel we have been micromanaged and minimized as professionals.
LAURA HOPKINS

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40яПН years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.

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