Mary J. Blige Quotes

When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

Mary J. Blige

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  

  Bart Stupak
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• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

  

  Gary Allan
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• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

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• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
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• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

  

  Nancy Garden
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• Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

  

  Alvar Aalto
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• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
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• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it.

  

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• When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

  

  Mary J. Blige
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