Nathaniel Adams Coles (Nat King Cole) Quotes
I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
Quotes to Explore
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Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
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Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
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I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.
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I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.
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My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
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The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.
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I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
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I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
