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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• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

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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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• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

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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.

  

  Laura Carmichael
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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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• People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.

  

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• When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

  

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• I have turned roles down because they are rapists. It's something I don't even want to watch. If I even click on it on TV, I have to click it off or I'll put my foot through the screen... What you see on that screen is just my terror at having to do that scene.

  

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• I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

  

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• To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  

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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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