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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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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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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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
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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.
