Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Women just love to shop.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
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Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
