Aldis Hodge Quotes
Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I got through college.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.
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Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
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These stories get made up, and I don’t know from where. I have no idea. I didn’t make that one up - sometimes I make my own stories up - but I didn’t make that one up.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Do you think I wish to hang Taher? Well, I don’t. But the Law of the Land should carry its Course. And he (Colonel Abu Taher) did not send any Mercy Petition and so what is there for me to do?
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Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
