Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
  • People
  • Challenged
  • Lots

• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• He was a man, he always performed his promises.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Man
  • Always
  • Promises

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

  

  Peter Sis
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • People
  • Earth
  • Support

• I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

  

  John Darnielle

• I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

  

  George Clarke
  • Idea
  • Cared
  • Unfairly

• I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying