Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
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However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
