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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I love Disclosure. Dillon Francis. Bauuer. Flosstradamus. I listen to a lot of different genres.
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George Burns was the father I never had.
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Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
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You never really know what's inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.
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To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
