Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.Leslie Odom, Jr.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike -
Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Dan Rather -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt -
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Ed Greenwood -
You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
Sammy Sosa
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara DioGuardi -
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi -
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani -
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
Forest Whitaker
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband -
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
Nancy Lublin -
I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
Nasim Pedrad -
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector
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I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.
Adam Rippon -
It's always a wonderful experience to keep working.
Lamman Rucker -
Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, 'Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly.'
Margaret Cho -
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.
Andy Stern -
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes -
It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.
Leslie Odom, Jr.