Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.Erykah Badu
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
Hannibal Buress -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
Fedor Emelianenko -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
Barrett Foa -
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens -
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
Carl Hiaasen -
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
K. D. Lang
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes -
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
Karl Radek -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
Walead Beshty
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The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
Maurice Strong -
It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
Ram Charan -
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
Bethany Mota -
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.
Martin Rees -
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
Erykah Badu