Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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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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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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Art is the absence of fear.
