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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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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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.
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I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.
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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.
