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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Queen Latifah

When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid – I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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Connection Direction Reason Sky Talk
New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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Greatness Live Place World
Life’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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Adventure Chance Home Life Myself
I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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Involve Myself
I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
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Break Home Music Myself Writing
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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Appearance Job Myself Person Strong Woman
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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Example People Positive Surround Yourself
There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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Confidence Inspirational People Person
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
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Different Enjoyment Flavor Myself Recipe Togetherness
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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Appearance Beautiful Flavor Self Love Shade
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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Help Ourselves People Success Talent
I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
I think it’s important to raise your kids, start ’em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
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Children Important Moral Myself Remember Teaching Thinking
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
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Myself Pay Pride
I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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Death Eat Love Myself Organic
For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
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Beautiful Love Mindset Sound Start Yourself
So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
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Chance Opportunity Yourself
If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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Failure God Myself Reason Unique
I’m proud of everything I do, but I think I’m the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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Act Happiness Help Myself Proud Thinking
I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
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Regret Serious Talk Yourself
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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Bold Brave True Yourself
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Believe Stand Time Yourself
Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.
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Clear Loud Proud Queen Voice Yourself
There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Appearance Different Feeling

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

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