Mary J. Blige Quotes
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
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I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
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You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
