Natalie Cole Quotes
My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.
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I wasn't a one-on-one type of guy.
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,- Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
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I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
