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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.

Queen Latifah

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!’
QUEEN LATIFAH

Regret Serious Talk Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Improvement Life Masterpieces Motion Yourself
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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Act Difficult Myself Training Transition
If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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Myself Run Time Version Worry
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
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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Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
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
I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.
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Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
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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Mother Myself Promise Time
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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Help Myself Poor Share
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 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
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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Decision Experience Human Learning Myself Perfection Regret
You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don’t know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
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Freedom Politics Right Thinking Time Wrong Yourself
I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
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Feeling Myself Queen Treatment Woman
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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Bad Goodness Story Yourself

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