Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
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Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.
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I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.
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I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
