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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When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
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And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
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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.
