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"Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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Personal Development
"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
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Personal Development
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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Personal Development
"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."
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Personal Development
"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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Personal Development
"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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Personal Development
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
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Personal Development
"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."
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Personal Development
"I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me."
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"In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also."
Life
"Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it."
Life
"The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more."
Business
"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever."
First
"Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation."
Change
"There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!"
Beauty
"I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed."
Music
"I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now."
Time
"Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it."
Now
"I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes."
Ideas
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