Mary J. Blige Quotes
Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
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It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.
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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
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I run a business and go all over the world doing things for that business, things that are fairly orthogonal. But my job is to run my company, not to be the best Instagrammer. I'll let other people be awesome at it.
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Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
