Natalie Cole Quotes
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I'm cranky.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.
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My hair - it's baby thin and feathery and drives me crazy no matter what I do with it. It's weird because you see people with thicker hair that just kind of stays put, but if I'm in any sort of weather, I look like Bill Murray in 'Kingpin' when it starts to all come unleashed.
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When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.
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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
