Natalie Cole Quotes
What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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It's amazing because I've done so many of these things I've always wanted to do - almost everything - in my career.
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Being chaotic isn't cute.
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You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
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We might as well be true with ourselves.
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
