Queen Latifah Quotes
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Therefore, broadly speaking, males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
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There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
