Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.
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Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
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Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
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Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.
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I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
