Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
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I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
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Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.
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When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
