Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
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I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
