Aldis Hodge Quotes

When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.

Aldis Hodge

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

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• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

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• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

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• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

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• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

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• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

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• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

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• Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.

  

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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

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• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

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• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  

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• When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

  

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• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

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• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

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• I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

  

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• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

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• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

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• I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.

  

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• Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

  

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• On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

  

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• Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

  

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• When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Diversity