Natalie Cole Quotes

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

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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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

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Growing up in Los Angeles, obviously it's a really fashionable city, but it has a really relaxed quality to it as well. So, my fashion education came while working on 'Suits'.

Meghan Markle

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One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

John Ortberg

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Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn't get away with much at home.

Steve Mollenkopf

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I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Robert Crumb

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Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

Robert Vaughn

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When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn't on race and on Jews and ethnicity.

Ron Stallworth

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere

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I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Arabella Weir

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Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly in accordance with justice and humanity, some time or other, if remembered at all, I should stand vindicated in the eyes of my countrymen.

William Lloyd Garrison

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