Lauryn Hill Quotes

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

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• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Art
  • Character
  • Fashion

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Work
  • Love
  • Kids

• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Father
  • Me
  • Memories

• If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Important
  • Trust
  • Justice

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Light
  • Positive

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Microphone

• Education is so important.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Education

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Together
  • Friendship

• Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Age

• Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • People
  • Live
  • Help

• We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Country
  • History
  • Turkey

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Door

• Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Way
  • Door
  • Compromise