Natalie Cole Quotes
I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.
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It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.
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I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.
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Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.
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I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
