Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • School
  • Strong
  • Internet

• The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Know
  • Fox

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • For Her
  • I Love
  • Give

• I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feet

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Space
  • Childhood
  • Rich

• In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Party
  • Government
  • Fight

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• It's fun to move people musically.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Move

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Moment

• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Know
  • Like
  • Potential

• Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Moments
  • Games
  • Everest

• I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Fear
  • Argue
  • Dodge

• Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Moral
  • Animal

• I'm not in the media that much, so people don't know my personality very well - they just know my work. I feel bad for people who have to read about my personal life and my relationships and see photos of me going through security at an airport. It's like watching a commercial for a hamburger that looks delicious, like a Big Mac, and then going to where they make it and taking photos of what it looks like behind the counter, and it's horrifying.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Work
  • Personality
  • Security

• Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

  

  Jake Owen
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez

• I don't know if I would personally want to step in the cage and either have my face caved in or cave in somebody else's, but I've met some really beautiful and sensitive and morally pretty stout individuals who happen to be fighters. It's really awesome.

  

  Matt Lauria
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Awesome

• The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Writing

• I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.