Nat King Cole Quotes
I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
