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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans. "

" I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down. "

" When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example. "

" One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music. "

" 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. "

" We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "

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

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

" People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look! "

" 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. "

" When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are. "

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" It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina. "

" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "

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" I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. "

" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "