Natalie Cole Quotes
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
