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.
QUEEN LATIFAHWhen 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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instinct leads me to another flow.
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I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
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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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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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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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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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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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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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