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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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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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Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
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Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
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Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
