Lauryn Hill Quotes
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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We have to realize we are building a movement.
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We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
