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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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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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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Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I'm damned proud of it.
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What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.
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Our sanctions do not give Iran the right to accelerate its nuclear program, it can never get near a nuclear bomb. We are looking very closely at that so it doesn't get below the one-year nuclear breakout time.
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.
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I've been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone's life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
