Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
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I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.
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Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.
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Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.
