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 don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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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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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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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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No two wars are identical.
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What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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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!
