Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
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When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
