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 LATIFAHTo me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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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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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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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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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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instinct leads me to another flow.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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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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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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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.
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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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