Mary J. Blige Quotes

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Mary J. Blige

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• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Doing

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Like
  • Point
  • Joke

• Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Guns

• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Time
  • Wonder
  • They Say

• There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Play
  • I Can

• I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Always

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Friends
  • Members
  • Radical

• I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Force
  • Iraq
  • Threat

• A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Feels

• And you stood there in front of me justClose enough to touch,Close enough to hope you couldn't seeWhat I was thinking of.Drop everything now,Meet me in the pouring rain.Kiss me on the sidewalk,Take away the pain.'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Pain

• I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of fulfilling the first and great commandment, Increase and Multiply : as an encouragement to which we have opened the fertile plains of the Ohio to the poor, the needy and the oppressed of the Earth; any one therefore who is heavy laden, or who wants land to cultivate, may repair thither and abound, as in the Land of promise, with milk and honey: the ways are preparing, and the roads will be made easy, thro' the channels of Potomac and James river.

  

  George Washington
  • Wish
  • Son
  • Daughter

• This is not an apology. I’m just a little bit stronger than you. This is not an apology. You’re such a chick, it makes me feel like a dude. My finger’s up, I’ve had enough. You’re going down so say goodbye to us. This is not an apology.

  

  Beatrice Miller
  • Stronger
  • Apology
  • Saying Goodbye

• It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Smile