Lenny Kravitz Quotes
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
