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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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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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've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
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The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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.
