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.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• 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.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Greek
  • Cook
  • Dish

• 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.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Strong

• 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?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Perspective

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Done
  • Strong

• I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Leader
  • Endorsement

• 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.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• 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.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• 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.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.

  

  Vijay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Son

• I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of wonderful things and the knowledge that some not-so-wonderful things come with it.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Body
  • Cancer
  • Learned

• Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.

  

  Brett Weston
  • Dad
  • Bank
  • Promoters

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual