Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Quotes to Explore
-
You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
-
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
-
I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
-
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
-
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
-
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
-
I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
-
I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
-
I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
-
For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
-
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
-
I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.
-
My first meal when I wake up is five boiled eggs, egg whites, and a slice of whole wheat bread.
-
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
-
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
-
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
-
Things are useless without practice.
-
It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.
-
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
-
God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.
-
I'm a bit of a groupie.
-
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
