Nat King Cole Quotes
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
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I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
