Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

Erykah Badu

• Sex
• Needs
• Partner
• Grows
• Partners
• Companionship

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• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Year
  • Graduation

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• My baby is the joy in my life.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Baby

• My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Water
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Time
  • You
  • Team

• I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Years
  • Opportunities

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Help
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • Shadow

• Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Study
  • Bible
  • Lonely

• You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Thinking

• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Sex

• I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Sex
  • Needs
  • Partner