Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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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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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
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Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
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I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.
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I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content.
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Music in general is looking for something new overall.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
