Mary J. Blige Quotes

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

Mary J. Blige

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • World
  • Best
  • Honor

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Years
  • Been
  • Iceland

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Nothing

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Talent
  • Genius

• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Me
  • Model
  • Role Model

• We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Culture

• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Alone

• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Lost
  • Cancer

• If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Lost