Fugees Quotes
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
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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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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
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I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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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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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
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This life is a process of learning.
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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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 looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike Jackson, I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.