Natalie Cole Quotes

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

Natalie Cole

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• I’ll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I’m writing all this down.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Woman
  • Birth
  • Director

• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Life
  • Conflict
  • Project

• Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Sinister

• If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Humans

• I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Distance