Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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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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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
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I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
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Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
