Lauryn Hill Quotes
When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it's not simply task-oriented - like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about - but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.