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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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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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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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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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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Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.
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Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
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I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Man is as much a slave to his immediate surroundings now as he was when he lived in tree-huts. Give him the highest, the most exciting thoughts about man's place in the universe, the meaning of history; they can all be snuffed out in a moment if he wants his dinner, or feels irritated by a child squalling on a bus. He is bound by pettiness.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
