Norah O'Donnell Quotes

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

Norah O'Donnell

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Finance

• Sports is like a war without the killing.

  

  Ted Turner
  • War
  • Like
  • Sports

• I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Goal

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Words

• The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Money
  • Free

• An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Player
  • Walking
  • Angry

• When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Different
  • Done
  • Strong

• When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • People
  • Relationship

• I'm not a gamer. I've never played any games. I was more a books and games outdoors kind of a person, so I was extremely daunted when I got this job knowing the size of the fan base and the commitment of the fans to 'Halo.'

  

  Anna Popplewell
  • Job
  • Commitment

• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Work
  • Home
  • Proud

• It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Control
  • Passionate

• Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Poetry
  • Connection
  • Solitude

• I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • World
  • Roots
  • Add

• I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Compassion
  • Planet

• There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Choices
  • Littles
  • Apples

• Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

  

  Norah O'Donnell
  • Passionate
  • Reach
  • Persistence