Queen Latifah Quotes
I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.
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I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.
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The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'
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I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
