Lauryn Hill Quotes
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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How you gonna win when you ain't right within?
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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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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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Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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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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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This life is a process of learning.
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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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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
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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 have inner peace. It's a different person.