Mary J. Blige Quotes

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

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• I've been in more laps than a napkin.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Stars

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

• A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Found

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Parents
  • College
  • Training

• I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Respect authority while questioning it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Respect

• I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Time
  • Drawing
  • Drinking

• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

  

  James Balog
  • Political
  • Football
  • Financial

• David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

  

  Jillian Bach
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Desire
  • Management

• When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • God

• I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Happy
  • City

• Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Reality

• We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Genius
  • Remains
  • Fears

• Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

  

  Mary J. Blige