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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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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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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Time is the devourer of all things.
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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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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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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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Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.
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Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
