Natalie Cole Quotes
It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the Gulf region and that of the Indian subcontinent are interlinked. Bilateral security cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia will contribute to regional stability and in addressing the common threat of terrorism in the region.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
