Natalie Cole Quotes
People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
