Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
