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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
-
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
-
I write in a small office at home.
-
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.
-
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
-
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?
-
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
-
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.
-
I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
-
Education is so important.
-
For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
-
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.
-
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
-
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.
-
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
-
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
-
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
-
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
-
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
