Natalie Cole Quotes
The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
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I don't like to get beat in anything!
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I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!
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If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
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Neither the current state nor the future prospects of this evolving order can be understood without an appreciation of its history.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
