Nat King Cole Quotes
A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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taking a vacation with his family in Costa Rica
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
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The best I can do is to make a film every two years.
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A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
