M. Hopper Quotations

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?

We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, we know that the recycling of brown and clear glass is less common and we need to make our residents more aware of this, and why it is important.

We know if a team gets 60 on us it's not going to be good. So the tempo was good for us with it in the 50s, and the guys never quit.

We're a bit surprised the court took this case, but we have a new court with Judge Roberts.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

My kids have been unbelievable with the heart they've shown. And that's why we've gotten this far.

My crew and I airlifted nearly 100 people from the roof of a building and onto a field where ambulances and buses were waiting for them. Ten of those who we rescued couldn't even walk; my crewmen had to carry them.

I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue squarely before the courts in a way that is not reckless.

I felt if we could get by our first game in the district, we had a decent shot of advancing.

If the 9th Circuit says, 'The sky is blue,' they ( the Supreme Court ) would want to review the decision and actually say the sky is gray.

We've got to tackle better. We've got to get first downs. We can't give the ball to them on the 50-yard line or the 30-yard line.

Here you have police officers on the front line whose reputations have been horribly tarnished, if not destroyed, and who are out of a job because of a drug test that may have identified them for being guilty of nothing more than the color of their skin.

He's a smooth, cool, intelligent actor who loves to work.

People naturally are gonna feel a little bit of donor fatigue, where they have exhausted their resources.

Like they said in this class, more than likely (terrorists) are going to pick a smaller community because people think they won't.

We hope the city defendants, especially Mayor Wilder, will use this as an opportunity to take the lead show leadership do what needs to be done to fix the schools and make them accessible to all people with disabilities.

We ain't going to win every battle, but can win the war.

We had some jitters in the first half. But once we settled down we started playing our basketball.

We're ecstatic. He's the ultimate folk hero, standing up to the government over a matter of principle.

We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurricane Katrina park.

The really cool thing about this idea is that nobody has done anything quite like this before.

We had a great run. We had to be on our game to be able to win. We weren't quite there.

We were one and done (in the district) last year, and we wouldn't let these guys forget. We felt like once we got by the first game we had a shot to advance. Then things just began to fall into place.

We knew if we kept it close, we would have a shot. We don't quit. We've been behind in close games before.

We knew if we kept it close we'd have a shot, and that's exactly what happened.

We had this kind of camaraderie - you know, children of the Sixties! But he's gone Republican. Easy Rider is a Republican!

We will not be handing out tickets at first, either to the management of establishments or people who don't comply with the law. We'll try to teach them that they can't smoke indoors.

Even though it may have looked like we were in a stall (offense) we were not, the last three minutes of the first half. We put ourselves into an offense and our kids just executed the offense and couldn't get a good look, so we didn't take a shot. It's not exactly that we were trying to hold the ball for three minutes.

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional interpretation.

Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if I know anything about famous musicians, most of them will be sitting around muttering and grumbling and bitching about all the others.

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Sometimes my teams get a bad rap of hanging onto the ball too much. We're trying to score. It's just the way we play.

Anywhere water flows is a tributary in their book.

The White House wants California to march in lockstep with its misguided prohibition of medical marijuana, but the Constitution says otherwise. The federal government cannot force California or the city of Santa Cruz to make medical marijuana use a crime, nor can the federal government use the threat of criminal prosecution to intentionally sabotage state and local laws that it does not like.

They recognize that the worst way to punish them is to kick them out of school.

It's a huge challenge, right now we have probably in the tens of thousands of funds that have come in.

It's going well. Establishments are doing their best to comply with the law. Ashtrays have been removed and people are being told to step outside. It's a learning process.

It's rewarding to help our fellow Americans, ... The crew knows that these people don't have a home to go back to. That is our motivation.

The Kiwanis does worldwide community service and our little local club decided to do our share. We started collecting food and clothing and other nonperishables and we took it upon ourselves to find a driver and rent a truck.

In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of the Dead.

I knew if we kept it close, we had a shot. Our kids have a tremendous amount of heart. We don't quit.

I really don't have a shopping list of musicians. You can never tell who is going to spark off that chemistry, that magic.

I live in a city that is billboards. Billboards and graffiti.

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.

I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused,

I had final cut, and I cut my own throat.

because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

He's simply the best, and if he wants to call acting merely a craft, then he's the greatest craftsman who ever lived.

Hopefully, by word-of-mouth, (it) will get out to others. If we have to move it to a larger area, it would be fine with us.

He put a dagger right in their heart. I thought we had it in hand after that shot.

And palm trees. I missed those. Maybe I'll do palm trees next.

And our kids' confidence has just grown and grown.