Mary J. Blige Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You're not going to make any progress on a problem if you're not honest about what a problem is.
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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
