Norah O'Donnell Quotes

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

Norah O'Donnell

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

  

  Gary North
  • Strategy
  • Forth

• I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • She
  • Dream

• As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Support
  • Professional

• Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • World
  • Things
  • Innocence

• Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Effort

• Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

  

  Leo Rosten

• It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.

  

  Clive Barker

• If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• I don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me.

  

  Elizabeth Banks

• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Up

• When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

  

  Bonnie Hunt

• As he ages and sees more of the world, he’s realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • World
  • Bad

• I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.

  

  Valeria Luiselli
  • Distance
  • Invisible

• You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

  

  Norah O'Donnell
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Challenges