Mariah Carey Quotes
Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.
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I have selective hearing.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.
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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.
