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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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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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.
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I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
