Fugees Quotes
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Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
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In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!