I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that’s why I became involved in management, bottom line.
QUEEN LATIFAHDreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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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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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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
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There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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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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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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Even if you don’t have anything, even if you’ve got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.
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