Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

Erykah Badu

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  • Friends

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

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• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
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• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

  

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• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
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• I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
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• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
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• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Admit

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
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• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
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• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

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  • You
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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

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  • Up
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• The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
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• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

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  • World
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• Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Great
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• Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

  

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• It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

  

  John Bacon
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Car
  • Police
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• When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

  

  Anne Waldman
  • Work
  • Thinking
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• I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Giving