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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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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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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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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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'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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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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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
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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.
