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 don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell those people. It's like people that don't know me or people that aren't even my friends saying I've changed. I have two friends - exactly two friends. It's like, how can someone that's not even my friend say I've changed?
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My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.
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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.
