Lauryn Hill Quotes
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I want to have a long career.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
