Queen Latifah Quotes
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Good design should be honest.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
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It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
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It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
