Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
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I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.
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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
