Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Always take your job seriously, never yourself.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well, but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.