Mary J. Blige Quotes
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.
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When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
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And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
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God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
