Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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You cannot do only one thing.
Garrett Hardin -
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Sam Ewing -
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul -
I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
Zach Galifianakis -
I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
Tavi Gevinson -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith -
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
Sally Mann -
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
Abraham Lincoln -
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe -
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
Safak Pavey
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
Maggie Q -
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp -
I am not a fashion freak!
Kate Moss -
The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
Tavi Gevinson -
I've been coaching how many years? A long time.
Larry Brown -
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
Carl Rakosi
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
Edmund Burke -
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson -
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
James Van Der Beek -
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd -
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
Adele -
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
Erykah Badu