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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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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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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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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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I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
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The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.
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It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.
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When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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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.
