Mary J. Blige Quotes
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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My desk is my drums.
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Nothing ever surprises me about the market.
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Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
