Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
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I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
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I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
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The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you do have to be resourceful and be able to flex your muscles artistically.
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There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
