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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.

Ben Hopkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: 1969

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Truth People You Stop Never Things

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

Joe Mantegna

Better Week Nothing Dead If I Could

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

John Stuart Mill

Character Action Color End Rules

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Aminatta Forna

Go Know Used Word Most Counts

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

Poetry Me Fly You Know Anything

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Understand First Seek Understood

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

Robert Crippen

Two Over Days Little Being Only

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Robert C. Merton

Father Parents People Me Think Go

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

Roy Haynes

Work Good Today World Advice You

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.

Dean Ornish

Government Serve Institutions Large

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

Work Funny City Me World Urban

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Pope Francis

Knowledge Light Grace Reason Souls

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.

Tyler Florence

Dog Think Ignore Long Vegetables