Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
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You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
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I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
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Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
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This life is a process of learning.
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Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
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God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.