Lauryn Hill Quotes

How you gonna win when you ain't right within?

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• The victor belongs to the spoils.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Success
  • Victor
  • Spoils

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Writer

• If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • You
  • Acting

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • Love
  • Done

• Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Political
  • Voice

• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Real
  • Fighting

• I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

  

  Zendaya
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Star

• Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Shows
  • Started
  • Modeling

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Myself
  • Doubt

• It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • High
  • Space

• In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • High
  • Depression

• What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.

  

  David Milch
  • Future
  • Past
  • Technology

• Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Work
  • Freedom

• If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • True
  • Inspiration
  • Honestly

• My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Opportunity

• How you gonna win when you ain't right within?

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees