SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes
I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
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In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.
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I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.
