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.

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• 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.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• 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.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
  • You
  • Need
  • Hit

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • 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.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • God

• In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Life

• I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Question

• My first meal when I wake up is five boiled eggs, egg whites, and a slice of whole wheat bread.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up

• Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

  

  David Bergen
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Attitude

• Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Up
  • Home
  • Dad

• When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Book
  • Forever

• My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

  

  John Sayles
  • Democracy

• Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Success
  • Journey
  • Significance

• Things are useless without practice.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Practice
  • Erykah
  • Badu

• The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

  

  Catherine Booth
  • Water
  • Christianity
  • Rising

• 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.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Erykah
  • Badu