Nat King Cole Quotes
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.
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I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.
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If I repent now will God forgive me?
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
