"Real religion is no religion at all."
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"When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family."
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"I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too."
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"I play my enemies like a game of chess"
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"Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family."
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"We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality."
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"And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it."
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"Now don't you understand man universal law What you throw out comes back to you, star Never underestimate those who you scar Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard"
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"I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me."
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"I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box."
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"Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying."
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"We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer."
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"People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like."
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"The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award."
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"Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?"
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"Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend."
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"I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that."
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"I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong."
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"I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?"
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"Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing."
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