Lauryn Hill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
-
When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
-
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
-
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
-
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
-
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
-
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
-
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
-
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
-
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
-
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
-
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
-
I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
-
People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
-
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
-
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
-
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
-
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
-
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
-
Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
-
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
-
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
-
Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
-
From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
