Lauryn Hill Quotes

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

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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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • School
  • Couple

• I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Like

• I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Feminism

• Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Years
  • Shy
  • Publicity

• 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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • God
  • Pretty
  • Free

• I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Always
  • Singing
  • German

• I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Game
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Alone

• I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Paris

• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  

  Liv Ullmann
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• 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.

  

  Frederick Douglass

• 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.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • May
  • Action

• Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Time
  • She
  • Firsts

• The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • World
  • Important
  • Faith

• My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Kind

• A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

  

  Michael Frayn
  • Hand
  • Imagination
  • Car

• The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Have
  • Less
  • Freer