- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate being too pretty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
- Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did 'Saala Khadoos,' being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being queen is overrated.
- Hazard
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- Nov 07, 2020