Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

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  LaDainian Tomlinson
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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

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• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

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• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  

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• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.

  

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• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
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• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
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• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
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• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

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• I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

  

  David Rouzer
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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

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• People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

  

  Joe Cocker
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• Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

  

  Elif Batuman
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• I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art