Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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My default is e-40 because there's no one else in the world who raps like him. I've always loved e-40.
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In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
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The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
