Aldis Hodge Quotes
I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.
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I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.
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My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
