La'Porsha Renae Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.
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Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
