Mary J. Blige Quotes
I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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Playing live is very exhausting, which is partly why I feel so tired today. But I've always wanted to live like that. I'd rather feel the experience than to be sort of feeling something in between and dull and numb. I love feeling the highs and the lows, it makes life far more exciting.
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I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.
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There's such a lack of sex in music.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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I've inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I'm the perfect mix of Philomena.
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I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
