Mary J. Blige Quotes

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

Mary J. Blige

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

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• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

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• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

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• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

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• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

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• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

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• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  

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• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

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• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

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• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

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• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

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• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

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• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

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• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  

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• We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

  

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• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

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• Only human, after all.

  

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• I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Music
  • God
  • Believe