Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
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The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.
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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
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From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
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What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
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I have to be able to be the artist that I am.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
