Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek) Quotes

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
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• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
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• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

  

  Raul Julia
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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
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• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
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• My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

  

  Karen O
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