Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
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One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'
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The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
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The main producer of CSI: Miami Ann Donahue - I believe that is how she started - and then we have one other man on set but that's just his job although I haven't seen him this year. So maybe they figure we have it down somehow.
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In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million?
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You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
