Lauryn Hill Quotes
For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
