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

• Many Italians suspect that this is our last chance for change.

  

  Federica Mogherini

• I've never done anything in my career that has gotten as much attention as 'House of Cards.'

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Done
  • Career
  • House

• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Help

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

  

  Paul McEuen
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Machines

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

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.