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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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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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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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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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.
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Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
