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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• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
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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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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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
  • Trying
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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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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  • Enough

• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

  Sam Neill
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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.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Yael Naim
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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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• The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

  

  Martha Beck
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• There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

  

  George Herbert
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  • Happy

• I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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  • Ordinary
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• If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • Love You
  • Who I Am

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing

• 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