Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

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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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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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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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Exercising and eating properly will build your physical and mental strength to endure the stressful situation.
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
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When 'Entourage' came out, there wasn't Twitter or any of this access to celebrities. 'Entourage,' for me, let you inside of a world that nobody really knew about.
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Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of 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.