Mary J. Blige Quotes

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

Mary J. Blige

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• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
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  • Jubilee

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Women

• Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Important
  • Long
  • Man

• I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Believe
  • Long
  • History

• I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Think
  • Single
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• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Think
  • Food

• I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Live
  • Remember

• So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Light
  • Habit

• Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Life

• I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Moon
  • Flying

• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Men

• As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.

  

  Mary J. Blige
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  • Live