Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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A being in a bonnet is not therefore a woman, a being with a beard is not therefore a man, nor yet is a wolf in sheepskin a lamb.
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I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'
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As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
