Queen Latifah Quotes
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
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One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.
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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.