Natalie Cole Quotes

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.

Natalie Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1950 - December 31, 2015

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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Jim Crace

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Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Megan Smith

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I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

John Mahoney

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My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

Ann Cleeves

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Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

John Pearson

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I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'

Robby Mook

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Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

Ron Fournier

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Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

Mike Wallace

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If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Martina Navratilova

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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.

Lucy Dacus

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I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

Liv Tyler

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