Mary J. Blige Quotes
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
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As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
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I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
