Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
