Norah O'Donnell Quotes
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
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Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.
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So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.
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I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.
