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Natalie Cole

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 6, 1950

I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

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

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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.

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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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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

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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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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

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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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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.

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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

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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.

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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

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

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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

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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?

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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

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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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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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