Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
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It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.
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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
