Aldis Hodge Quotes

As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Want
  • Food
  • Junk Food

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Resources
  • Wealthy

• I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Form
  • Opposed
  • Any

• You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Friend

• The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • God
  • Heart
  • History

• 'Sanam Re' is an amalgamation of an emotional love story and a visual treat.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Emotional
  • Story

• It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Data
  • Capture

• They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Risk

• It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Power
  • Father

• He would give up then, and console himself with something she’d said: that you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process, not a state. Held still, it withered. He wasn’t too sure about all that; he seemed to have found a calm clear serenity in himself he hadn’t even known was there, thanks to her.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • She
  • Calm

• Although neither nation has been brought to admit that they were chargeable with the first infraction, yet no American can forget the carrying off the negroes.

  

  John Adams
  • American

• I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

  

  Richard Wright Pink Floyd
  • Family
  • Period
  • Dark Side

• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Mom
  • Affection
  • Siblings

• As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.

  

  Aldis Hodge