Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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We care about margins.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.