Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
Imtiaz Ali -
We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
D. B. Weiss -
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
Edgar Ramirez -
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
Wallace Shawn
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
Carine Roitfeld -
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips -
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam -
We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom -
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington -
I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
T. J. Perkins
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
Octavia Spencer -
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne -
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
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Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
Glen Campbell -
It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.
W. C. Fields -
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries Shah -
Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit -
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
Peter Mandelson -
Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.
Erykah Badu