Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
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Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.