Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Teaches

• When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Smart

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Think

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
  • Worry
  • Uncertainty

• With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.

  

  Tyronn Lue

• Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Feeling
  • Joy
  • Feelings

• Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • Free
  • Giving