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" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "
Natalie Cole
Feel
My Life
Life
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" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "
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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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" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "
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" My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure. "
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" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "
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" The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow. "
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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 think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. "
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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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School
Home
Door
" My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. "
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Pop Culture
Pop
" God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me. "
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Faith
Power
Me
" I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. "
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Records
Always
Father
" It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff. "
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Best
Life
Worst
" The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys. "
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Every Day
Day
Death
" 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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Park
Los Angeles
Father
" I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person. "
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Sometimes
Go
Person
" I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. "
Natalie Cole
People
Life
Men
" I was going to college to be a doctor. "
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Going
Doctor
College
" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "
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Aretha Franklin
Does
Like
" 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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Survive
Away
Born
" I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha. "
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Voice
Blues
Create
" Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance. "
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Face
God
Life
" I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes. "
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Interesting
Think
Career
" I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old. "
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I Am
Years
Look
" I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees. "
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Health
Grace
God
" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "
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Always
People
Myself
" I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage. "
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Wonderful
Leaving
Heritage
" 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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Clothes
Sexy
Beautiful
" 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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Build
Starting
Up
" I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole. "
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Laugh
King
Son