Leslie Odom, Jr. Quote

We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People tryi...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We sti...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I've spent a long time learning my way around a stage as an actor, but this I don't know as ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane,...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a lof...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I'm the nap champion.
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like m...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough coura...
LESLIE ODOM, JR.

The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are importa...
LAMAR ODOM

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the ...
LAMAR ODOM

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was...
LAMAR ODOM

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bi...
LAMAR ODOM

The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me t...
LAMAR ODOM

I consider myself a little weak.
LAMAR ODOM

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
LAMAR ODOM

Death always seems to be around me.
LAMAR ODOM

Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
LAMAR ODOM

The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
LAMAR ODOM

I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
LAMAR ODOM

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?'...
LAMAR ODOM

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
LAMAR ODOM

For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Ric...
LAMAR ODOM

I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no pr...
LAMAR ODOM

Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it...
LAMAR ODOM

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.
LAMAR ODOM

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
LAMAR ODOM

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
LAMAR ODOM

I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
LAMAR ODOM

Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet s...
LAMAR ODOM

We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
LAMAR ODOM

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, ...
LAMAR ODOM

The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remors...
LAMAR ODOM

I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
LAMAR ODOM

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
WILLIAM ODOM

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibil...
LAMAR ODOM

I don't know what we're going to do about it,
BOB ODOM

We're working to save lives today,
BOB ODOM

St. Bernard is totally underwater, ... It is over the rooftops. I didn't see a lot of houses in St. ...
BOB ODOM

there is a lot of water, a lot of damage.
BOB ODOM

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do wha...
BOB ODOM

If you harvest it, it will regenerate.
BOB ODOM

We don't know if the cotton has been blown out, but most of the storm probably went to the east of t...
BOB ODOM

It's hard to remember when losses have been so widespread across almost every crop and in every regi...
BOB ODOM

We've worked with the debris contractors, the [U.S.] Corps of Engineers and FEMA to handle debris an...
BOB ODOM

The state average is about 11 inches below normal rainfall. There are very few places in the state t...
BOB ODOM

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about...
WILLIAM ODOM

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian su...
WILLIAM ODOM

Keep your poise, keep your composure, keep playing.
DAVE ODOM

It was locked up. Nobody had a key to it, so I had to get a locksmith to come in and unlock it.
DAVE ODOM

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. ...
MEL ODOM

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people wa...
MEL ODOM

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal syst...
WILLIAM ODOM

He's extremely disrespectful. I'm just going to leave it at that. It's dudes like that why things ha...
LAMAR ODOM

We lost Carols Powell and we have no one to fill his spot. We don't have anyone to assume the sole r...
DAVE ODOM

We've had great efforts — that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonig...
DAVE ODOM

We played a great defensive game against Detroit, a great defensive game against Oklahoma (New Orlea...
LAMAR ODOM

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel l...
WILLIAM ODOM

We did not have our game with us today. We were very out of sync and I don't know why that is. This ...
DAVE ODOM

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in h...
WILLIAM ODOM

I can't imagine a team having a more rigorous non-conference schedule than S.C. State. Having not pl...
DAVE ODOM

I'm kind of lost for words. It was a pleasure just to watch him out here.
LAMAR ODOM

We were only down six points with about 3 minutes on the clock and then gave in with a rash of error...
DAVE ODOM

Only Tubby knows where that's headed. We've got to prepare for their whole roster and nobody has the...
DAVE ODOM

We are delighted to be playing in the finals for the second consecutive year. That is a big thing fo...
DAVE ODOM

[Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to pr...
BOB ODOM

That's hard to overcome anywhere, home or away, neutral, wherever. The difference is the free throw ...
DAVE ODOM

We did not play as smart as you have to play playing a top 25 team, suffice to say. You've got to pl...
DAVE ODOM

The loss is disappointing. Physically and mentally we gave in there at the end. It doesn't mean we d...
DAVE ODOM

More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo — sometimes, less is better. If you keep him ...
DAVE ODOM

Billy and I were able to shake hands after the game and he had some nice complements about how our a...
DAVE ODOM

Nobody wants his legacy to be: 'He was a great NIT coach.
DAVE ODOM

I enjoy the NIT. I don't know if anyone wants their legacy to be he was a great NIT coach, but by th...
DAVE ODOM

That's a beginning, not an end. You take what you can get when you get it.
DAVE ODOM

You're not going to be fatigued in the first 10 minutes (when South Carolina was missing shot after ...
DAVE ODOM

We obviously took some 3s, no question about that. Probably no more than we should have, but we didn...
DAVE ODOM

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for con...
MEL ODOM

With Florida, we are facing a team, and I say team underlined. They are, in the truest sense, a real...
DAVE ODOM

(Downey)'s exciting to watch, much like an Allen Iverson is. We've to make sure we don't watch him, ...
DAVE ODOM

He had a basketball IQ. He could make that kind of change. But there are very few of those guys.
DAVE ODOM

Does any Watcher ever know that he is suddenly watching the Slayer until that moment is announced to...
MEL ODOM

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
WILLIAM ODOM

I don't know quite as much about Cincinnati as I'd like. I think we know enough to know that defensi...
DAVE ODOM

I asked them to chisel it down and we did. Right now we need to get back home and correct and get re...
DAVE ODOM

It could have been called a foul. But if it's not, I guess that means I just didn't go hard enough. ...
LAMAR ODOM

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always str...
WILLIAM ODOM

A big, big factor in South Carolina 's favor. They do a great job of forcing turnovers and making as...
DAVE ODOM

Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first pl...
WILLIAM ODOM

I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. ...
MEL ODOM

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every tw...
WILLIAM ODOM

More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo sometimes, less is better. If you keep him u...
DAVE ODOM

For whatever reason, against us it's always easy to shoot 3-point shots in last four minutes of the ...
DAVE ODOM

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonigh...
DAVE ODOM

If people have trouble when the grass is cut sometimes that'll kick the tree pollen and mold up in t...
LAURA ODOM

We needed this game, so I just wanted to stay aggressive around the boards, find the basket, get som...
LAMAR ODOM

He was a good dude before. He's an even better dude now. This is a guy who's been through a lot. He'...
LAMAR ODOM

This was not like having a cold or the flu, this was a complicated surgery. Some people lose their l...
LAMAR ODOM

It was fun. We gave them a show. I was glad a lot of the NBA greats came, too.
LAMAR ODOM

Inside presence, being physical, that's what we need from him. The guy's got the best body in the NB...
LAMAR ODOM

Last year, we were a really bad defensive team. We're better, but we're still bad.
LAMAR ODOM

Every game we play is going to be the biggest game of the year. ... It's in our hands. We can't real...
LAMAR ODOM

We just threw everybody at (Pierce). If you put two guys on him, you have a high percentage of stopp...
LAMAR ODOM

He raises the I.Q. of your basketball team ? he helps us tremendously,
LAMAR ODOM

He raises the I.Q. of your basketball team - he helps us tremendously,
LAMAR ODOM

So you're saying no one asked for it?
REP. GARY ODOM

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came ...
ROSE LESLIE

I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.
ROSE LESLIE

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN

I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
LESLIE DEWAN

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate ...
LESLIE BIBB

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du...
LESLIE JAMISON

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would yo...
LESLIE CARON

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can rend...
LESLIE LAMPORT

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k...
LESLIE WEATHERHEAD

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more ...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the b...
LESLIE WEXNER

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exp...
LESLIE HOWARD

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
LESLIE CHARTERIS

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like st...
LESLIE MOONVES

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what mak...
LESLIE DEWAN

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
SHANE LESLIE

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for ...
SHANE LESLIE

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. ...
SHANE LESLIE

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
SHANE LESLIE

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets ...
LISA LESLIE

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do...
LESLIE JAMISON

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be dec...
LESLIE MOONVES

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - tech...
DAVID LESLIE

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough...
LESLIE CARON

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings...
LESLIE JAMISON

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
LESLIE CARON

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to i...
LESLIE FIEDLER

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to...
LESLIE MOONVES

Child actors don't have great track records.
LESLIE MANN

If you're like me and love chatting about your latest box set addiction, then Sky Box Sets Club ...
ROSE LESLIE

I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable...
LESLIE STEPHEN

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of b...
ROSE LESLIE

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
LESLIE NIELSEN

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most re...
LESLIE COCKBURN

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
LESLIE FIEDLER

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, ...
LESLIE JAMISON

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit...
LESLIE JONES

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained eve...
ROSE LESLIE

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ...
ROSE LESLIE

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, becaus...
LESLIE JONES

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the ...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We'...
LESLIE MOONVES

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they a...
ROSE LESLIE

I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and...
ROSE LESLIE

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and ...
LESLIE MOONVES

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact tha...
ROSE LESLIE

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I&#...
LESLIE NIELSEN

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talen...
LESLIE MOONVES

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days...
ROSE LESLIE

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rul...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of co...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality....
ROSE LESLIE

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'...
LESLIE MANN

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
ROSE LESLIE

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
LESLIE JONES

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.
LESLIE AMENT

Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and qualit...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probabl...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

There is more communication within smaller organizations.
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the g...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer se...
LESLIE AMENT

This is going to steamroll.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This is going to steamroll,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be d...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is ...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back a...
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

To the institutional investor, there's a lot at stake this year if Bush doesn't win re-election, ......
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.

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Leslie Odom, Jr.

Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.

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