Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek) Quotes

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Karen O

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Organization

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • City
  • Car
  • Happen

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Book
  • History
  • Present

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy - deep down. May you be happy too. I'm going to Fontainebleau on Monday and I'll be back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. All is well.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • May
  • Happy
  • Night

• One of the things stressed in the original game of D&D was the importance of recording game time with respect to each and every player character in a campaign. In AD&D it is emphasized even more: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Time
  • Character
  • Game

• I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Time
  • Cleansing
  • Bosnia

• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  

  Karen O
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Struggle