Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
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I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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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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My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.
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There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
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A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
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Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
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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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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
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Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.