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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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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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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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
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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.
