Ben Hopkins Quotes

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.

Ben Hopkins

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I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

Jerry Rice

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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

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I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

Mel Torme

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The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

Amy Jackson

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Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

John Piper

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As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

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As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

Tony Dungy

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I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Marvin Hamlisch

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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.

DeRay Mckesson

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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Christopher Lasch

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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Bono

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The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant H. McGill

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