Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
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The music business is like a big trap and that's why I never like to put both feet into it - I like to stand back and laugh at it, because if you jump into the mainstream completely then you are never going to escape. ---Songs like 'Firestarter' burst into the mainstream and bend it, twist it. Then we retreat back underground. That's the best way.
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But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope.
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
