Natalie Cole Quotes
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Aretha Franklin does not like me.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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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?
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.