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'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas, Alone, Perfect

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
Justin Bieber

Funny, Two, Few

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
Mel Brooks

Mean, Far, Guys

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney

Home, Him, Known

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
Johnny Mathis

Beautiful, Lovely, Voice

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
Ethel Merman

Enough, Show, Lucky

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Ethel Merman

Goes, Four, Hits

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
Ethel Merman

Reputation, Worldwide, Porter

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
Paula Cole

Real, Self, Trying

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
Mose Allison

King, Players, Jazz

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris

Good, Film, Hollywood

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
Aaron Neville

Mother, Growing, House

Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
Bryan White

Big, Influence, King

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.
Louis Tomlinson

Her, She, Growing

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.
Robert Crais

Time, Long, Book

Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.
Curt Weldon

Through, Two, Before

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
Cat Power

Love, Whatever, Gone

Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
Adam Pally

Son, Old, Everyday

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline

Famous, Away, Room

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?
Richard Dawson

Family, Women, Crazy

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Character, Play, Again

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Him, Around, American

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
Ronaldinho

Best, Him, Keep

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.
Gerry Beckley

Night, Through, Secret

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
William Bell

Time, Enough, Around

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
Diahann Carroll

Friend, Words, Advice

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
Mike Stoller

Time, Great, Writing

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.
Robert Laurent

Time, Him, Front

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