You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
QUEEN LATIFAHMost 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
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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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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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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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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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Always follow your own path.
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To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.
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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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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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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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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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instinct leads me to another flow.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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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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