Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I love the French horn.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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O my America! my new-found land.
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I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
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I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
