Queen Latifah Quotes
When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
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If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.
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We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
