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.

Erykah Badu

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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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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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.

  

  Barry Lopez
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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.

  

  Irwin Rose
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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.

  

  Irving Berlin
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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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
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• I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  

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• Our dreams are a second life.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
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• For me, 'Jaws' is much more of an adventure movie, but when it's scary, it's terrifying. When it's funny, it's hilarious. When there's drama, it's the most sincere stuff on screen. When there's adventure, there's swashbuckle. It's all those things.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
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• I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

  

  Anushka Sharma
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• The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

  

  Ernest Holmes
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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.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Enough