Erin Kelly Quotes
...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
Quotes to Explore
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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I love having my husband at home. Especially when I have to leave the country so he can take care of our children.
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...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
