Nathaniel Adams Coles (Nat King Cole) Quotes
Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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Alexander North Whitehead is supposed to have said of Bertrand Russell: 'Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.'
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I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.
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Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul’s evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions...
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
