Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.Leslie Odom, Jr.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
Frances O'Grady -
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
Aaron Neville
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi -
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
Kapil Sharma -
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross -
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao Tzu -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Taylor Dayne -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.
Louis Gossett, Jr. -
I feel at home when I go to London.
Didier Drogba -
I know the devil haunting loneliness.
Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo -
I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
Adriana Lima -
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.
Leslie Odom, Jr.