Queen Latifah Quotes

I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • Step

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Serious
  • Name
  • Questions

• The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Like
  • Fantastic

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
  • City
  • Blessed
  • Holy

• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Life
  • Want
  • Issue

• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • You
  • Body
  • Working

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Million
  • Diabetes
  • Latino

• We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Look

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Day
  • Better
  • Speech

• As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • People
  • Cool
  • Basketball

• As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • House
  • Boy
  • Contentment

• I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Cool
  • Better
  • Guys