Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.
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I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.
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I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
