"I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of……" — Queen Latifah
"I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it."
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Queen Latifah
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144 Quotes by Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah has 144 quotes on this site.
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I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said,…
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Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.
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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate…
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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state…
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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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…
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I'd like to have and adopt [children]. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have…
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It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable…
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I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever…
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there…
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More 80s Quotes
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I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health…
— Bob Barker
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I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms…
— Mayim Bialik
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
— Manolo Blahnik
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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just…
— Garth Brooks
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
— Malin Akerman
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My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.
— Michael Buble
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
— Geezer Butler
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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did…
— Naomi Campbell
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro ,…
— Jackie Chan
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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