Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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The economic dynamics and legal complexities of civil aviation is as complex as it’s science,art and technology. My opinion is that, non subject matter experts should either seek for knowledge or keep quiet. Same may apply to other professions, I suppose.
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It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
