Queen Latifah Quotes
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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What I get to do is have fun in my house, by myself, and put it on the Internet.
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Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.
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Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
