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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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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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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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
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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.
