Nat King Cole Quotes
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.
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Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.
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In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
