Mary J. Blige Quotes
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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Government is not show business.
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
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I like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going through the night!
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
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We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
