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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• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
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• A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a long business day that Malcolm put in very tired. He would get there at about - either at Haley's apartment or they would meet at then Idyllwild Airport at a hotel, and Malcolm would be debriefed by Haley. He would talk, Haley would take notes.

  

  Manning Marable
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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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