Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.
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There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
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I'm always trolling for trivia.
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The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
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Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real.
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That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
