Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Impact

• I have my own studio down in Miami.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Down
  • Own
  • Miami

• I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Voice
  • Lonely

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
  • Said

• It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Song

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Museums
  • Furniture

• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Unhappy

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sports

• StyleHaul will allow me more opportunities to express my point of view in the lifestyle and fashion space.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Space
  • Fashion
  • Opportunities

• 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Man
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Good
  • Why
  • Black

• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Work
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• Consuetudo concinnat amorem;nam leviter quamvis quod crebro tunditur ictu,vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit.Nonne vides etiam guttas in saxa cadentisumoris longo in spatio pertundere saxa?

  

  Lucretius

• The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• I want to break down the wall of, you know, you have to put on a jacket and tie, and you have to act a certain way, and you have to know how to order the right kind of wine. All these things have suddenly been built up around jazz and the way it's presented.

  

  Jose James
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Wine

• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Bodies
  • Harm
  • Houses

• Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.