Mary J. Blige Quotes

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Gold
  • Find

• Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Different
  • Economy
  • Equal

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  

  Dane Cook
  • Just
  • Hot
  • Notes

• I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Best
  • Literature
  • Story

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Europe
  • Refugees

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Company
  • Chinese

• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Truth
  • Question

• Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Successful
  • Chinese

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Fighting

• A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • People
  • Power
  • Free

• I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Training

• I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Amazing

• My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Rest
  • Journey