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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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.
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If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
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Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
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An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
