Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes

I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

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• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

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• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

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• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

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• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

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• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

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• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

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• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

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• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

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• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

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• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

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• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

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• Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

  

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• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

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• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

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• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

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• I don't like to play the victim.

  

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• I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by transportation. Sometimes local food is more energy efficient. But often it's not. The strongest case for locavorism is to eat less that's flown on planes, and not to worry about boats.

  

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• Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

  

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• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

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• Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

  

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• Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

  

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• I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
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