Mary J. Blige Quotes
I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.
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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.
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Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.
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There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.
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I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
