Lauryn Hill Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Lauryn Hill

  Life, Crazy, Kicking

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• Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

  Lauryn Hill

  Responsibility, Fans, Individual

  "Singer Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months in jail for not tax evasion". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2013.

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• I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Want, Results

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• Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Littles, Ships

  "Lauryn Hill on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  Lauryn Hill

  Order, Safety, Guarantees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, Hero, Names

  "Lauryn Hill’s Thesis On Where Art & Corporate Interests Meet Recalls Dave Chappelle’s Escape" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 10, 2012.

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• As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

  Lauryn Hill

  Inspiring, Mean, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Lauryn Hill

  Children, People, Role Models

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• We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

  Lauryn Hill

  Crazy, Equipment

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• You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.

  Lauryn Hill

  Jobs, Office, Waiting

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• There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

  Lauryn Hill

  Beautiful, Girl, Self Esteem

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• Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

  Lauryn Hill

  Media, Important, Stay Focused

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• God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

  Lauryn Hill

  Care, Messages, Made

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• I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

  Lauryn Hill

  Kids, Awards, Spit Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

  Lauryn Hill

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

  Lauryn Hill

  Together, Painful, Back Together

  Song: EX FACTOR Album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill', Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  Lauryn Hill

  Team, Exercise, Army

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy
  Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  Lauryn Hill

  Block, Cocky, Moxie

  "Song: 'Take It Easy'". 2005.

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• Now the skies could fall
  Not even if my boss should call
  The world it seems so very small
  'Cause nothing even matters at all

  Lauryn Hill

  Fall, Sky, Boss

  Song: Nothing Even Matters

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• I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Sustenance

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Boxes

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• I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

  Lauryn Hill

  Boys, People, Lines

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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."

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Occupation, Firsts

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• Now don't you understand man universal law
  What you throw out comes back to you, star
  Never underestimate those who you scar
  Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

  Lauryn Hill

  Karma, Stars, Men

  Song: Lost Ones

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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.

  Lauryn Hill

  Growing Up, America, Female

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview With Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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