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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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I grew up poor.
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I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.
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It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
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I play golf because it's fun.
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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.
