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 -
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
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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 -
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
Bill Kurtis -
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
Scarlett Johansson -
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
Dan DeCarlo -
Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.
Jerrod Carmichael -
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