Aldis Hodge Quotes
It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.
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Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will
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It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.
