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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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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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.
