Lauryn Hill Quotes
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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We are wiser than we know.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.
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There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
