Mary J. Blige Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
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There are a lot of guys who can be an ace here on this team.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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If there's a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
