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I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 26
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Lauryn Noelle Hill
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
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Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
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Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...
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The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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Never underestimate those who you scar.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
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My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
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I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
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We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.
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