Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
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I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
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As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.
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When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.
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I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
