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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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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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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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.
