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“I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.”

“Nat King Cole, The Early Years”

“I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

“I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me— I was a father.”

“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”

“I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.”

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"The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is Constitutional and that which he doesn't like is un-Constitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person."

— Hugo Black

Politics1886–1971

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"There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son."

— Aleister Crowley

Literature1875–1947

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"Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear"

— all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.

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"Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform."

— Margaret Mead

ethnology1901–1978

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