Mariah Carey Quotes
Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
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The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself.
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If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
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Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
