Lauryn Hill Quotes
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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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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
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It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
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I believe God will make a way.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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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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We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
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To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
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I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.
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When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
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The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.