Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Quotes to Explore
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
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Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
