Lauryn Hill Quotes
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In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
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If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.
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Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
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It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
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Never underestimate those who you scar.
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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
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See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.