Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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It ain't over till it's over.
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What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
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My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.
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Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.
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My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
