Lauryn Hill Quotes
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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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I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
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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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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.
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God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.
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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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Let optimists rule the world.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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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.
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Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
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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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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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As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
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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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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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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.