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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Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.
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O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
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The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
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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.
