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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So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.
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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.
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I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
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I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.
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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.
