If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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!’
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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To 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.
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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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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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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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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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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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 feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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