Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
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Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.
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You have to fight against being an antique.
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
