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've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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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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We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
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I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know for sure, however, is that we need to help these people.
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It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. – so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.
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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.
