Aldis Hodge quote: "My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at age 10 looking like a little old man. But somehow I grew to understand that a watch is a representation of myself, of my culture, taste, awareness and aesthetic."

We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it com...
ALDIS HODGE

My standard for the women in my life is like, 'If no man can treat you better than I can treat y...
ALDIS HODGE

Every single step, although I couldn't see it, was a step forward and built to where I am now.
ALDIS HODGE

I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'...
ALDIS HODGE

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The a...
ALDIS HODGE

A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so mu...
ALDIS HODGE

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern en...
ALDIS HODGE

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when ...
ALDIS HODGE

Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What i...
ALDIS HODGE

I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and ...
ALDIS HODGE

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out ...
ALDIS HODGE

As far as my contribution to this industry, I want to be like Dean Devlin, John Rogers, and Chris Do...
ALDIS HODGE

For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work. People are like, 'You're on a s...
ALDIS HODGE

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young.
ALDIS HODGE

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that realit...
ALDIS HODGE

When I was 18, I began attending college for art and design, and I designed all sorts of things from...
ALDIS HODGE

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
ALDIS HODGE

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into...
ALDIS HODGE

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanit...
ALDIS HODGE

I don't understand actors who complain when they get work. 'I'm working too much. I'...
ALDIS HODGE

If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don't ...
ALDIS HODGE

We owe a lot when it comes to women in terms of innovation, in terms of education, in terms of progr...
ALDIS HODGE

It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explo...
ALDIS HODGE

I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and pati...
ALDIS HODGE

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder somethin...
ALDIS HODGE

I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding differe...
ALDIS HODGE

What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody...
ALDIS HODGE

When you do learn these things, when you understand what inclusion is, then we can accomplish greate...
ALDIS HODGE

In Kosovo, millions of dollars were spent to dispose of drugs by incinerating them.
WILLIAM ALDIS

We knew there was already a significant disease burden. We didn't expect and didn't find that it was...
WILLIAM ALDIS

We knew there was already a significant disease burden, ... We didn't expect and didn't find that it...
WILLIAM ALDIS

Sometimes the problem in disasters is that not requested and unneeded drugs are coming in,
WILLIAM ALDIS

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it ...
WILLIAM ALDIS

It's been catastrophic. The nurses are the ones to hold the situation together at hospitals and they...
WILLIAM ALDIS

What we are doing here is pushing it forward in terms of the management and logistics.
WILLIAM ALDIS

The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harm...
T.F. HODGE

That's a tough call to make, especially on a critical call like that.
ABDUL HODGE

I'll tell you what, that was big. It gave them a bigger gap and when you play a team with an offense...
ABDUL HODGE

Growing up, I think the competition at a young age with the programs here, I was able to compete wit...
ABDUL HODGE

We're not going to sneak up on them like I think we did the last time. I think they kind of took us ...
ABDUL HODGE

We can't move forward if we keep on looking in the past. Last year was last year, and it was a great...
ABDUL HODGE

That's been a trademark of our football team. We go out every Saturday and try to play with intensit...
ABDUL HODGE

I can't speak for them. But we've lost some games, too. It makes you face reality, that there are so...
ABDUL HODGE

We'll never be a team that kicks away from anybody.
ABDUL HODGE

You're aware that at any given moment they can change the face of a game by returning a punt. They'r...
ABDUL HODGE

We'll have the same mentality. We'll try to be one of the top defenses in the country. Be in the att...
ABDUL HODGE

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
T.F. HODGE

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It ...
T.F. HODGE

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born...
T.F. HODGE

Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.
T.F. HODGE

The sky is not my limit...I am.
T.F. HODGE

Head up, heart open. To better days!
T.F. HODGE

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.
T.F. HODGE

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you...
T.F. HODGE

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I...
ROSAMUND HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
ALEXANDER HODGE

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
CHARLES HODGE

Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't ...
T.F. HODGE

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.
ROSAMUND HODGE

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond...
T.F. HODGE

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience ...
CHARLES HODGE

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and...
T.F. HODGE

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can reboun...
T.F. HODGE

Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing sho...
T.F. HODGE

This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I ...
T.F. HODGE

While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shafte...
DOUGLAS HODGE

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people d...
CHARLES HODGE

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and exec...
CHARLES HODGE

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but wa...
CHARLES HODGE

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
CHARLES HODGE

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in ...
CHARLES HODGE

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...
CHARLES HODGE

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of...
T.F. HODGE

Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than ...
T.F. HODGE

Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth...
T.F. HODGE

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.
T.F. HODGE

Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.
T.F. HODGE

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce ...
CHARLES HODGE

Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite jou...
T.F. HODGE

I don't know who's going to get coach of the year, but he certainly deserves it. I don't know how ma...
BRAD HODGE

We were where we needed to be at the half, but it's like it's fools gold when you come in here and f...
BRAD HODGE

We were just joking about it before that even the prime minister had a few weeks off over Christmas ...
BRAD HODGE

It would be nice to be able to do that here (in Adelaide) but somehow the 50-over game's a little bi...
BRAD HODGE

Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot...
CHARLES HODGE

Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 29,30] The call intended is the effectual cal...
CHARLES HODGE

When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes...
T.F. HODGE

They are going to look straight up at the ridge right in front of them.
CHUCK HODGE

In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon,...
DOUGLAS HODGE

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.
CHUCK HODGE

During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is na...
T.F. HODGE

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and govern...
CHARLES HODGE

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.
T.F. HODGE

I'm not very feminine. Tried it once, threw my back out, had to give it up.
STEPHANIE HODGE

You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden t...
SCOTT HODGE

Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.
T.F. HODGE

Solitude is the house of peace.
T.F. HODGE

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.
T.F. HODGE

Where they come in the perpetual spirit of giving - the house that love built.
T.F. HODGE

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in...
CHARLES HODGE

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
B...
ROSAMUND HODGE

There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hue...
T.F. HODGE

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.
T.F. HODGE

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fest...
T.F. HODGE

You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented...
T.F. HODGE

There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, a...
T.F. HODGE

Shade caught my hand, slid his fingers through mine. The touch felt like lightning up my arm.
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ROSAMUND HODGE

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister fo...
T.F. HODGE

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. HODGE

When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially ve...
T.F. HODGE

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubb...
T.F. HODGE

One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.
T.F. HODGE

I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the s...
DOUGLAS HODGE

The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will rew...
T.F. HODGE

Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits y...
T.F. HODGE

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.
T.F. HODGE

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tir...
JIM HODGE

After a bad trip, don't carry your luggage on board the next flight. Stay grounded til you figure ou...
T.F. HODGE

If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.
T.F. HODGE

The riders who get away on that climb are going to try to hold that.
CHUCK HODGE

The American riders tend to do a lot better on the finish circuit. They are more used to it than the...
CHUCK HODGE

Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.
T.F. HODGE

If you have coordinators coming in and out, it's going to be hard for guys relationship-wise to get ...
ABDUL HODGE

It was a tough call. I don't know how you can make a call like that. That's not in my hands. The onl...
ABDUL HODGE

We're definitely doing more blitzing (than in the past), and when you blitz you've got to communicat...
ABDUL HODGE

This week has been like another practice at the University of Iowa for me. It's been fun having Chad...
ABDUL HODGE

I think the linebacker group this year is high caliber. There's a lot of good inside guys and good o...
ABDUL HODGE

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the onl...
T.F. HODGE

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God
CHARLES HODGE

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early m...
CHARLES HODGE

Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxe...
SCOTT HODGE

Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time.
T.F. HODGE

There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not
T.F. HODGE

I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi W...
DOUGLAS HODGE

This is my third season here and it's the most close-knit team I've played on.
BRENDON HODGE

Hate wields no sustainable power; it is ultimately suffocated by the juice of love
T.F. HODGE

External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.
T.F. HODGE

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
T.F. HODGE

We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
T.F. HODGE

To their own demise, most attended the party and still remain. Time wasters and space takers.
T.F. HODGE

Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street he...
T.F. HODGE

It's a category one climb - very tough. Then there is a pretty screaming downhill.
CHUCK HODGE

Club Hate' does not admit fine people to it's membership.
T.F. HODGE

Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pocket...
T.F. HODGE

Her skin looks like what a Puerto Rican would look like.
JAMES HODGE

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they ...
SCOTT HODGE

He's been telling me to make sure that if you practice at 11 o'clock and (Karl) wants you to be ther...
JULIUS HODGE

The way I look at it, I'd rather him talking to me and yelling at me rather than not saying anything...
JULIUS HODGE

I'm going to have to be as patient as I've ever been in basketball, ... I'm going to have to continu...
JULIUS HODGE

All Coach Karl does is talk about UNC, ... And I can't say nothing about it.
JULIUS HODGE

It's definitely behind me now. I know I'm strong mentally, so I got past it pretty fast. It happened...
JULIUS HODGE

It's been more work than people think. I've been going from this place to that place doing a lot of ...
JULIUS HODGE

I just felt jubilation. I thought all the hard work I put in for four years paid off. I'm going to t...
JULIUS HODGE

Definitely. I'm really looking forward to being out there on the football field in front of all our ...
JULIUS HODGE

It'll be a great honor just to look in the rafters and see the David Thompsons and Tommy Burlesons, ...
JULIUS HODGE

My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. ...
T.F. HODGE

Happiness can't be made; it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.
T.F. HODGE

Freedom is realizing you have a choice.
T.F. HODGE

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.
T.F. HODGE

Where there's [a] will, there's a witness.
T.F. HODGE

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.
T.F. HODGE

The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a differ...
T.F. HODGE

Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.
T.F. HODGE

If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.
T.F. HODGE

Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like ...
T.F. HODGE

On stuck status? Don't crush the groove, bust a move.
T.F. HODGE

Feed the mind good wisdom, the body good nutrition, the soul good vibes, and the heart good love. El...
T.F. HODGE

Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.
T.F. HODGE

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
T.F. HODGE

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one w...
T.F. HODGE

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule o...
T.F. HODGE

Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.
T.F. HODGE

One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilder...
T.F. HODGE

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. HODGE

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for...
T.F. HODGE

The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth pr...
T.F. HODGE

Love spiritually, not strategically.
T.F. HODGE

To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small...
T.F. HODGE

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop...
T.F. HODGE

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.
T.F. HODGE

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, y...
T.F. HODGE

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
T.F. HODGE

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T.F. HODGE

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginnin...
T.F. HODGE

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
T.F. HODGE

When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction.
T.F. HODGE

Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wic...
CHARLES HODGE

I used one for about two years, and when I went back to a conventional putter last year, I found tha...
DOUG HODGE

Earlier this season, I said I'd walk barefoot from Raleigh to Cary [a nearby city] to not only get i...
JULIUS HODGE

Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
ROSAMUND HODGE

Circumstance points to deeper meaning.
T.F. HODGE

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you...
T.F. HODGE

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the...
CHARLES HODGE

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.
T.F. HODGE

I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.
DOUGLAS HODGE

I came to heal, not deal.
T.F. HODGE

Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other.
T.F. HODGE

Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.
T.F. HODGE

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”
“You,” said Amélie, “were al...
ROSAMUND HODGE

My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at age 10 looking like a little old man. But somehow I grew to understand that a watch is a representation of myself, of my culture, taste, awareness and aesthetic.

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My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at age 10 looking like a little old man. But somehow I grew to understand that a watch is a representation of myself, of my culture, taste, awareness and aesthetic.

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