Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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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.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
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You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.
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Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
