Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.
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The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
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I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
