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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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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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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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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 do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.
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Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
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Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
