Mary J. Blige Quotes

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

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• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Jewish

• Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Team

• I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Know
  • Hollywood
  • Heads

• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Love
  • Why
  • You

• The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Religion

• The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Roles

• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  

  Xavi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Thought
  • Vote

• Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Future
  • Success
  • Relationship

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Up
  • Light
  • Grow

• Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Write
  • Readers

• I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Small

• Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Music
  • Everyone
  • Jazz

• I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

  

  Annie French Hector
  • Money
  • Riches
  • Monotony

• As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

  

  Mary J. Blige