Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
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Liverpool will always be my home.
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I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
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Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
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My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.
