Queen Latifah Quotes
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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The devil made me do it.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Now, at this time, I think there’s too many people who feel comfortable with hate speech. It’s become too commonplace, and acceptable. And it’s not okay, and we’ve got to change that…I think we also have to take responsibility for the words that come out of our mouths, because we are all connected. We are all part of one community.
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There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
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My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
