Natalie MacLean Quotes
I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.
 
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	My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'   
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	To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.   
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	Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.   
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	The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.   
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	Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.   
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	When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.   
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	In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.   
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	Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.   
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	Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.   
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	My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.   
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	I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.   
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	I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.   
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	In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.   
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	I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.   
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	I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.   
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	As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.   
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	I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.   
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	I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.   
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	I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.   
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	I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.   
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	Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.   
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	If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.   
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	So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."   
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	I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					