Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
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I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
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In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
