Queen Latifah Quotes
No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.
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I did very little marketing. The key is to make your clients money. If you have a good track record, people will find you and knock on your door. Just make your clients money.
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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
