Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
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  • Golf

• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
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  • Blue

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
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  • Me

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
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• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
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• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
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• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
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• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
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• I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.

  

  Luke Evans
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• Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Freedom
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  • Mean

• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  

  Jerry Saltz
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• Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings.

  

  James Veitch
  • People
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• Kimi is a great driver like Fernando, but together, they could be a time bomb for Ferrari.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne
  • Time
  • Great
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• One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
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