Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
Wayne Gretzky
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Yoko Ono
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
Padgett Powell
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
Vidya Balan
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
Taya Kyle
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
Hansika Motwani
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There are people, also, who cannot believe that beauty and gaiety are a part of goodness. When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
Edith Sitwell
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There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone.
Pat Buchanan
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I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there anymore, and the late-night talk competition is weak. All them dudes is weak. I don't even know who they are. Weirdos, and I don't even care. I want to bring real fun back to late night where a real comedian is doing it.
Mark Curry
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
Alexander Skarsgard
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I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
Ned Beauman
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
Bernice King
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If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.
James A. Michener
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
Chuck D
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I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
Joanne Liu
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My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
Maria Cornejo
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
Cloris Leachman
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I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
Kristan Higgins
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In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
Seth Godin
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I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
