C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've seen Him be faithful in those things.

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.

I'm always going to be a singer.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

I do not like being in front of the camera.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

I feel like if we're blessed enough to be given talent, to be given an opportunity, then why not take that opportunity and make it for someone's betterment you know?

I can't spread myself too thin to where I have nothing left to give!

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not.

Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

I want my clothes to make you smile!

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.