Natalie Cole Quotes
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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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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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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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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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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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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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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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
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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.
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Aretha Franklin does not like me.