Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.
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What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.
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A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
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It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.
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I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
