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" I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra. "

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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! "

Natalie Cole

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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. "

" I was going to college to be a doctor. "

" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "

" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "

" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Sometimes

Person

" Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue. "

" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "

" I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Daughter

Lot

" 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. "

" My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well. "

" I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. "

" I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes. "

" 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. "

" I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. "

" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "

" I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up. "

" I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better. "

" 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. "

" I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best. "

" As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids. "

" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "

Natalie Cole

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