Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
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I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
