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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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 equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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If I weren't a matchmaker, I'd be a chef.
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Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
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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.
