Lauryn Hill Quotes
I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.
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I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
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I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
