SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes
I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu!
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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No two wars are identical.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
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I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu!
