Mary J. Blige Quotes
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
Quotes to Explore
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.
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I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
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We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
