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 guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
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Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
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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.
