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 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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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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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
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There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.
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I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.
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One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
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Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.
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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.
