Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

Erykah Badu

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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • Science
  • Process

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the piano like you wouldn't believe, and he can bowl and play basketball like you wouldn't believe.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

  

  Muhammad Yunus
  • People
  • Believe
  • Economic

• When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Band
  • Difficult

• It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Girl

• A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Gold
  • Standard

• I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Desire
  • Practice
  • Training