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.Erykah Badu
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
Tamara Ecclestone -
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.
Abhishek Bachchan -
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
Everything can be satirized.
Sam Kinison -
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?
Walt Whitman -
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.
Park Chan-wook
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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.
Lajos Kossuth -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Leading from behind doesn't work.
Ted Cruz -
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
T. D. Jakes -
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.
Mandy Patinkin
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
Adam Beach -
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.
Aby Rosen -
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.
Dana Goodyear -
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
Yoko Ono -
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
Gary Numan -
I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
Fiona Apple
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Wendy Liebman -
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
Bruno Mars -
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My friends know I'm a really big movie buff, and I named Vivianne after a movie character. She was named after Vivianne Walker in 'Ya Ya Sisterhood.'
Jessie James Decker -
If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
Bhumibol Adulyadej -
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.
Erykah Badu