Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
Quotes to Explore
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
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I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?
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I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.
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The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.'
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The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
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The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.
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I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
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We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.
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Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.
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Positivity gives me a boost to do better. Negativity gives me a boost to try and prove people wrong. So I use both of them positively.
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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.
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You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
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Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.
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Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
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There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
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I'm really into California art from the '60s.
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If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
