Kelley O'Hara Quotes
It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.
 
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	I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.   
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	I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.   
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	I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.   
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	I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.   
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	I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.   
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	The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.   
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	Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.   
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	A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.   
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	If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.   
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	To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.   
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	Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.   
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	Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.   
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	When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.   
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	You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.   
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	The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.   
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	If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.   
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	I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!   
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	I love doing serious movies for adults.   
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	Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.   
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	Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.   
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	I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.   
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	I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.   
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	I have known Sepp Blatter, FIFA and football for a long time, and there are some fundamental values which FIFA and the ICRC share.   
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	It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					